Dioscoreales
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Vernacular names of plants within the Order Dioscoreales

Preuss' dioscorea
batflower
cinnamon vine
croomia
dunguey
himber
hottentot-bread
mata gallina
rajania
tacca
yam

Hierarchical position of the Order Dioscoreales

   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  Dioscoreales Hook.f.
pub. 1876
  

Named members of the Order Dioscoreales

1
   Familia  Avetraceae Takht.
pub. Divers. Classif. Fl. Pl.: 524. 1 Mai 1997.
2
   Familia  Croomiaceae Nakai
pub. Iconogr. Pl. As. Orient. 2: 159. Nov 1937.
3
   Familia  Dioscoreaceae R. Br.
pub. Prodr.: 294. 27 Mar 1810, nom. cons.
common name: Yams
  
4
   Familia  Pentastemonaceae Duyfjes
pub. Blumea 36: 552. 9 Jun 1992.
5
   Familia  Stemonaceae Engl. in Engl. & Prantl
pub. Nat. Pflanzenfam., II, 5: 8. 26 Mar 1887, nom. cons.
6
   Familia  Stenomeridaceae J. Agardh
pub. Theoria Syst. Pl.: 66. Apr-Sep 1858.
7
   Familia  Taccaceae Dumort.
pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 57, 58. 1829, nom. cons.
8
   Familia  Trichopodaceae Hutch.
pub. Fam. Fl. Pl. 2: 143. 1934, nom. cons.

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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