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Vernacular names of plants within the Order Polygalales

Hierarchical position of the Order Polygalales

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  Rosidae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 264. Jan-Mar 1967.       SuperOrdo  Geranianae Thorne ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 236. 1992.       Ordo  Polygalales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 20. 1829.

Named members of the Order Polygalales

1	Familia  Emblingiaceae (Pax) Airy Shaw pub. Kew Bull. 18: 257. 8 Dec 1964.
2	Subordo  Polygalineae Bessey in C.K. Adams pub. Johnson's Universal Cyclop. 8: 461. 15 Nov 1895.
	3    Familia  Polygalaceae R. Br. in Flinders pub. Voy. Terra Austr. 2: 542. 19 Jul 1814. common name: Milkworts
4	Familia  Xanthophyllaceae (Baill. ex Engl.) Gagnep. ex Reveal & Ho pub. Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., ser. 4, sect. B Adansonia, 12:

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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