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Vernacular names of plants within the Family Equisetaceae

Hierarchical position of the Family Equisetaceae

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Equisetophyta B. Boivin syn. Sphenophyta pub. Bull. Soc. Bot. France 103: 492. Nov 1956. common name: horsetails       Subdivisio  Equisetophytina Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.       Classis  Equisetopsida C. Agardh pub. Classes Pl. (1): 7. 20 Mai 1825. common name: horsetails       Subclassis  Equisetidae Engl. & Gilg pub. Engler's Syllabus, ed. 9-10: 108. Nov-Dec 1924.       Ordo  Equisetales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 66. 1829.       Subordo  Equisetineae Rabenh. pub. Deutschl. Krypt.-Fl. 2: xvi, 332. Jan-Feb 1849.       Familia  Equisetaceae Michx. ex DC. pub. Essai Propr. M�d. Pl.: 49. Jul 1804. common name: horsetails

Named members of the Family Equisetaceae

1	Genus  Allostelites Borner syn. Equisetum L.
2	Subfamilia  Equisetoideae Eaton pub. Man. Bot., ed. 6, 2: 80. 22 Mai-3 Jun 1833.
	3    Genus  Equisetum L. pub. (1753) common name: horsetail
4	Genus  Hippochaete J.Milde syn. Equisetum L.

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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