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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Caesalpinia

Hierarchical position of the Genus Caesalpinia

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  Caesalpiniaceae R. Br. in Flinders pub. Voy. Terra Austr. 2: 551. 19 Jun 1814.       Subfamilia  Caesalpinioideae DC. pub. Prodr. 2: 473. mid Nov 1825.       Tribus  Caesalpinieae Rchb. pub. Fl. Germ. Excurs. 2(2): 544. 1832.       Subtribus  Caesalpiniinae (R. Br.) Walp. pub. Repert. Bot. Syst. 1: 809. 26-29 Jan 1843.       Genus  Caesalpinia L. pub. (1753) common name: nicker

Named members of the Genus Caesalpinia

1	Species  atropunctata Eifert syn. Caesalpinia wootonii
2	Species  bonduc (L.) Roxb. common name: yellow nicker
3	Species  brachycarpa (Gray) Fisher common name: broadpod nicker
4	Species  caudata (Gray) Fisher common name: tailed nicker
5	Species  ciliata (Bergius ex Wikstr.) Urban common name: mato
6	Species  coriaria (Jacq.) Willd. common name: divi divi, nacascolotl  (Nahuatl Aztec)
7	Species  crista auct. non L. syn. Caesalpinia bonduc
8	Species  culebrae (Britt. & Wilson) Alain common name: smooth yellow nicker
9	Species  decapetala (Roth) Alston common name: shoofly
10	Species  divergens Urban common name: small yellow nicker
11	Species  drepanocarpa (Gray) Fisher common name: sicklepod holdback
12	Species  drummondii (Torr. & Gray) Fisher common name: dwarf nicker
13	Species  echinata Lam. common name: Brazilwood
14	Species  gilliesii (Hook.) Wallich ex D. Dietr. common name: bird-of-paradise shrub
15	Species  globulorum Bakh. f. & van Royen syn. Caesalpinia major
16	Species  jamesii (Torr. & Gray) Fisher common name: James' holdback
17	Species  kavaiensis Mann common name: uhiuhi
18	Species  major (Medik.) Dandy & Exell common name: Hawai'i pearls
19	Species  melanosperma (Eggers) Urban syn. Caesalpinia ciliata
20	Species  mexicana Gray common name: Mexican holdback
21	Species  monensis Britt. common name: black nicker
22	Species  oxycarpa (Benth. ex Gray) Fisher syn. Hoffmannseggia oxycarpa
23	Species  parryi (Fisher) Eifert common name: Parry's holdback
24	Species  pauciflora (Griseb.) C. Wright ex Sauvalle common name: fewflower holdback
25	Species  phyllanthoides Standl. common name: wait-a-bit vine
26	Species  portoricensis (Britt. & Wilson) Alain common name: brown nicker
27	Species  pulcherrima (L.) Sw. common name: pride of Barbados
28	Species  repens Eastw. common name: creeping nicker
29	Species  sappan L. common name: sappanwood, Bukkum-wood
30	Species  sepiaria Roxb. syn. Caesalpinia decapetala
31	Species  spinosa (Molina) Kuntze common name: spiny holdback
32	Species  texensis (Fisher) Fisher syn. Caesalpinia drummondii
33	Species  virgata Fisher common name: wand holdback
34	Species  wootonii (Britt.) Eifert ex Isely common name: Wooton's holdback

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.