Myricaceae
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Vernacular names of plants within the Family Myricaceae

bayberry
candleberry
myrtle
sweet fern
sweetgale
waxberry

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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