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Vernacular names of plants within the Family Myricaceae

Hierarchical position of the Family Myricaceae

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  Hamamelididae Takht. pub. 1967       SuperOrdo  Juglandanae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 236. 1992.       Ordo  Myricales Engl. in Engl. & Prantl pub. Nat. Pflanzenfam. Nachtr.: 345. Dec 1897.       Familia  Myricaceae Blume pub. Fl. Javae 17-18: 3. 1829. common name: Bayberries

Named members of the Family Myricaceae

1	Genus  Canacomyrica Guillaumin
2	Tribus  Comptonieae Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 12. 1829.
	3    Genus  Comptonia L'H�r. pub. (1789) common name: sweet fern
4	Subfamilia  Myricoideae (Kunth) Sweet pub. Hort. Brit.: 370. Sep-Oct 1826.
	5    Tribus  Myriceae DC. ex Duby pub. Bot. Gall. 1: 430. 12-14 Apr 1828.      6    Subtribus  Myrciinae O. Berg pub. Linnaea 27: 4. Nov 1855.      7    Genus  Myrica L. pub. (1753) common name: sweetgale

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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