Xyridales
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Vernacular names of plants within the Order Xyridales

Yellow-eyed Grasses
mayaca
stream bogmoss
yelloweyed grass

Hierarchical position of the Order Xyridales

   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  Commelinidae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 171. Jan-Mar 1967.
common name: Grasses, Sedges, Rushes
  
   SuperOrdo  Commelinanae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 514. Jan-Mar 1967.
  
   Ordo  Xyridales Lindl.
pub. Veg. Kingd.: lvii, 185. Jan-Mai 1846.

Named members of the Order Xyridales

1
   Familia  Mayacaceae Kunth
pub. Abh. K�nigl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1840, Phys. Abh.: 93. 1842.
2
   Familia  Rapateaceae Dumort.
pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 60, 62. 1829, nom. cons.
3
   Familia  Xyridaceae C. Agardh
pub. Aphor. Bot. (11): 158. 23 Mai 1823.
common name: Yellow-eyed Grasses

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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