Caryocar
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Caryocar

achotillo
pequi
souari nut

Hierarchical position of the Genus Caryocar

   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  Theanae R. Dahlgren ex Reveal
pub. Phytologia 74: 179. 25 Mar 1993.
  
   Ordo  Theales Lindl.
pub. Nix. Pl.: 12. 17 Sep 1833.
  
   Familia  Caryocaraceae Szyszyl. in Engl. & Prantl
pub. Nat. Pflanzenfam., III, 6: 153. Mai 1893.
   Tribus  Caryocareae Baill.
pub. Hist. Pl. 4: 247, 264. 1872.
   Genus  Caryocar L.
pub. (1771)
common name: caryocar

Named members of the Genus Caryocar

1
   Species  amygdaliferum Mutis
common name: achotillo
2
   Species  brasiliense Cambess.
common name: pequi
3
   Species  nuciferum L.
common name: souari nut

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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