Celastrales
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Vernacular names of plants within the Order Celastrales

Canby's mountain-lover
Florida boxwood
Oregon boxleaf
Utah mortonia
bejuco prieto
bittersweet
canotia
cassine
catha
christmasberry
crossopetalum
crucifixion thorn
desert yaupon
false box
hippocratea
khat
maidenberry
mayten
medicine vine
paxistima
perrottetia
pristimera
saddlebush
schaefferia
spindletree
strawberry bush
torralbasia
white cinnamon
winged burning bush
winged euonymus

Hierarchical position of the Order Celastrales

   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  Celastranae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 371. Jan-Mar 1967.
  
   Ordo  Celastrales Baskerville
pub. Aff. Pl.: 104. 1839.
  

Named members of the Order Celastrales

1
   Subordo  Celastrineae Bessey in C.K. Adams
pub. Johnson's Universal Cyclop. 8: 462. 15 Nov 1895.
  
 
2
   Familia  Celastraceae R. Br. in Flinders
pub. Voy. Terra Austr. 2: 554. 19 Jul 1814.
common name: Bittersweets
  
3
   Familia  Goupiaceae Miers
pub. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 3, 9: 292. Apr 1862.
4
   Familia  Lophopyxidaceae (Engl.) H. Pfeiff.
pub. Revista Sudamer. Bot. 10: 4. 1951.
5
   Familia  Stackhousiaceae R. Br. in Flinders
pub. Voy. Terra Austr. 2: 555. 19 Jul 1814.

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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