Arachis
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Arachis

goober
grassnut
groundnut
peanut

Hierarchical position of the Genus Arachis

   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  Rosopsida Batsch
pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.
  
   Subclassis  Rosidae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 264. Jan-Mar 1967.
  
   SuperOrdo  Fabanae R. Dahlgren ex Reveal
pub. Phytologia 74: 179. 25 Mar 1993.
  
   Ordo  Fabales Bromhead
pub. Edinburgh New Philos. J. 25: 126. Jul 1838.
common name: legumes
  
   Familia  Fabaceae Lindl.
pub. Intr. Nat. Syst. Bot., ed. 2: 148. Jul 1836.
common name: Leguminosae
  
   Familia  Leguminosae Juss.
pub. Gen. Pl.: 345. 4 Aug 1789, nom. cons.
  
   Genus  Arachis L.
common name: peanut
  

Named members of the Genus Arachis

1
   Species  glabrata Benth.
 
2
   Varietas  hagenbeckii (Harms) F.J. Herm.
syn. Arachis hagenbeckii
3
   Species  hagenbeckii Harms
common name: Hagenbeck's peanut
4
   Species  hypogaea L.
common name: peanut, goober
  
5
   Species  monticola Krapov. & Rig.
common name: peanut
6
   Species  prostrata Benth.
common name: grassnut
7
   Species  villosulicarpa Hoehne
common name: groundnut

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

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

 

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

 

Last reviewed October 31, 2004   

 

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