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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Strychnos

Hierarchical position of the Genus Strychnos

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  Lamiidae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 74: 178. 25 Mar 1993.       SuperOrdo  Gentiananae Thorne ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 236. 1992.       Ordo  Gentianales Lindl. pub. Nix. Pl.: 19. 17 Sep 1833.       Familia  Strychnaceae DC. ex Perleb pub. Vers. Artzneikr. Pfl.: 244. Mai 1818.       Subfamilia  Strychnoideae Kostel. pub. Allg. Med.-Pharm. Fl. 3: 1054. Apr-Dec 1834.       Tribus  Strychneae Endl. pub. Gen. Pl.: 575. Aug 1838.       Subtribus  Strychninae Progel in Mart. pub. Fl. Bras. 6(1): 251, 269. 1 Dec 1865.       Genus  Strychnos L. pub. (1753) common name: strychnos

Named members of the Genus Strychnos

1	Species  nux-vomica L. common name: strychnine tree, nux vomica
2	Species  spinosa Lam. common name: Natal orange
3	Species  toxifera Schomb. ex Benth. common name: strychnine

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.