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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Adonis

Hierarchical position of the Genus Adonis

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  Ranunculopsida Brongn. pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xxvi, 96. 12 Aug 1843.       Subclassis  Ranunculidae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 235. 1992.       SuperOrdo  Ranunculanae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 236. 1992.       Ordo  Ranunculales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 44. 1829.       Subordo  Ranunculineae Bessey in C.K. Adams pub. Johnson's Universal Cyclop. 8: 460. 1 Nov 1895.       Familia  Ranunculaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 231. 4 Aug 1789, nom. cons. common name: Buttercups       Tribus  Adonideae Horan. pub. Char. Ess. Fam.: 173. 1847.       Subtribus  Adonidinae A. Gray pub. Gen. Amer. Bot. 1: 11. 2 Mai 1848.       Genus  Adonis L. pub. (1753) common name: pheasant's eye

Named members of the Genus Adonis

1	Species  aestivalis L.
	2    Varietas  citrina Hoffmann syn. Adonis aestivalis
3	Species  annua L. common name: blooddrops
4	Species  autumnalis L. syn. Adonis annua
5	Species  vernalis L. common name: spring pheasant's eye, yellow pheasant's eye, false hellebore

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.