Melanthiaceae
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Vernacular names of plants within the Family Melanthiaceae

Harper's beauty
Osceola's plume
amianthium
blazing star
bunchflower
camas
chamaelirium
crow poison
deathcamas
fairywand
false unicorn root
feather fleece
featherbells
feathershank
flypoison
harperocallis
helonias
pleea
rush featherling

Hierarchical position of the Family Melanthiaceae

   Regnum  Plantae
common name: The plant kingdom
  
   Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist
syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta
pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: angiosperms, flowering plants
  
   Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal
pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: Angiosperms
  
   Classis  Liliopsida Brongn.
pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xv, 17. 12 Aug 1843.
common name: Monocots
  
   Subclassis  Liliidae J.H. Schaffn.
pub. Ohio Naturalist 11: 413. Dec 1911.
  
   SuperOrdo  Lilianae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 473. Jan-Mar 1967.
  
   Ordo  Melanthiales R. Dahlgre ex Reveal
pub. 1992
  
   Familia  Melanthiaceae Batsch
pub. Tab. Affin. Regni Veg.: 133. 2 Mai 1802.
  

Named members of the Family Melanthiaceae

1
   Genus  Amianthium A.Gray
common name: amianthium
  
2
   Genus  Campynemanthe Baill.
3
   Genus  Chamaelirium Willd.
common name: chamaelirium
  
4
   Genus  Harperocallis McDaniel
common name: harperocallis
5
   Genus  Heloniopsis A.Gray
6
   Genus  Japonolirion Nakai
7
   Subfamilia  Melanthioideae Eaton
pub. Bot. Dict., ed. 4: 27. Apr-Mai 1836.
 
8
   Tribus  Melanthieae Griseb.
pub. Spic. Fl. Rumel. 2: 377. Jan 1846.
 
9
   Genus  Melanthium L.
pub. (1753)
common name: bunchflower
10
   Genus  Metanarthecium Maxim.
11
   Genus  Nietneria Klotzsch ex Benth.
12
   Genus  Pleea Michx.
common name: pleea
13
   Genus  Schoenocaulon A.Gray
common name: feathershank
14
   Genus  Stenanthella Rydb.
syn. Stenanthium (A.Gray) Kunth
15
   Genus  Stenanthium (A.Gray) Kunth
common name: featherbells
  
16
   Subfamilia  Veratroideae Burmeist.
pub. Handb. Naturgesch.: 222. 1837.
  
 
17
   Tribus  Veratreae T. Nees & C.H. Eberm. ex Endl.
pub. Gen. Pl.: 134. Dec 1836.
  
 
18
   Genus  Veratrum L.
pub. (1753)
common name: false hellebore
  
19
   Genus  Ypsilandra Franch.
20
   Genus  Zigadenus Michx.
common name: deathcamas
  

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.

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