Cacao
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Hierarchical position of the Genus Cacao

   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  Dilleniidae Takht. ex Reveal & Tahkt.
pub. 1993
  
   SuperOrdo  Malvanae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 242. Jan-Mar 1967.
  
   Ordo  Malvales Dumort.
pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 43. 1829.
  
   Subordo  Malvineae Rchb.
pub. Deut. Bot. Herb.-Buch: lxxxi. Jul 1841.
  
   Familia  Sterculiaceae (DC.) Bartl.
pub. Ord. Nat. Pl.: 225, 340. Sep 1830, nom. cons.
common name: Cacaoss
  
   Genus  Cacao Mill.
pub. (1754)

Named members of the Genus Cacao

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   Species  bicolor (Humb. & Bonpl.) Poiret
syn. Theobroma bicolor

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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