Sassafras
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Sassafras

cinnamon wood
sassafras

Hierarchical position of the Genus Sassafras

   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  Magnoliopsida Brongn.
pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xxvi, 95. 12 Aug 1843.
common name: Dicots
  
   Subclassis  Magnoliidae Nov�k ex Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 51. Jan-Mar 1967.
  
   SuperOrdo  Lauranae Takht.
pub. Divers. Classif. Fl. Pl.: 53. 1 Mai 1997.
  
   Ordo  Laurales Perleb
pub. Lehrb. Naturgesch. Pflanzenr.: 174. Sep-Oct 1826.
  
   Familia  Lauraceae Juss.
pub. Gen. Pl.: 80. 4 Aug 1789.
common name: Laurels
  
   Genus  Sassafras Nees   

Named members of the Genus Sassafras

1
   Species  albidum (Nutt.) Nees & Eberm.
common name: sassafras, cinnamon wood
  
 
2
   Varietas  molle (Raf.) Fern.
syn. Sassafras albidum
3
   Species  officinale Nees & Eberm.
syn. Sassafras albidum
common name: sassafras
  
4
   Species  sassafras (L.) Karst.
syn. Sassafras albidum
5
   Species  variifolium (Salisb.) Kuntze
syn. Sassafras albidum

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 November 01, 2004   

 

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