More Order entries
[ Medusandrales ] [ Melanthiales ] [ Menispermales ]

Vernacular names of plants within the Order Melanthiales

Hierarchical position of the Order Melanthiales

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  Liliopsida Brongn. pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xv, 17. 12 Aug 1843. common name: Monocots       Subclassis  Liliidae J.H. Schaffn. pub. Ohio Naturalist 11: 413. Dec 1911.       SuperOrdo  Lilianae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 473. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Melanthiales R. Dahlgre ex Reveal pub. 1992

Named members of the Order Melanthiales

1	Familia  Campynemataceae Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 57, 58. 1829.
2	Familia  Chionographidaceae (Nakai) Takht. pub. Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 81(2): 85. Mai-Jun 1996.
3	Familia  Heloniadaceae J. Agardh pub. Theoria Syst. Pl.: 4. Apr-Sep 1858.
4	Familia  Japonoliriaceae Takht. pub. Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 81(2): 85. Mai-Jun 1996.
5	Familia  Melanthiaceae Batsch pub. Tab. Affin. Regni Veg.: 133. 2 Mai 1802.
6	Familia  Xerophyllaceae Takht. pub. Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 81(2): 86. Mai-Jun 1996.

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.

For an index to other topics see

   Wild & cultivated plants of the world