Myrtales
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Vernacular names of plants within the Order Myrtales

Rangoon creeper
acisanthera
anogeissus
buchenavia
bucida
camasey
cigar flower
clover ash
combretum
decodon
didiplis
dissotis
evening-primroses
false heather
ginoria
graffenrieda
gregorywood
gum ghatti
heimia
heterocentron
heterotrichum
hogwood
laguncularia
lawsonia
leandra
loosestrife
mangos
mangrove
meadowbeauty
mecranium
melastomes
myrtles
nepsera
redstem
rotala
scutula
snailwood
trembleya
waxweed

Hierarchical position of the Order Myrtales

   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  Myrtanae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 295. Jan-Mar 1967.
  
   Ordo  Myrtales Rchb.
pub. Bot. Damen: 475. 1828.
  

Named members of the Order Myrtales

1
   Familia  Alzateaceae S.A. Graham
pub. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 71: 775. 19 Apr 1985.
2
   Familia  Combretaceae R. Br.
pub. Prodr.: 351. 27 Mar 1810, nom. cons.
common name: Combretum, Mangos
  
3
   Familia  Crypteroniaceae A. DC. in DC.
pub. Prodr. 16(2): 677. Jul 1868, nom. cons.
4
   Familia  Heteropyxidaceae Engl. & Gilg
pub. Engler's Syllabus, ed. 8: 281. Jan-Feb 1920, nom. cons.
5
   Familia  Lythraceae J. St.-Hil.
pub. Expos. Fam. Nat. 2: 175. Feb-Apr 1805.
common name: Loosestrife
  
6
   Familia  Melastomataceae Juss.
pub. Gen. Pl.: 328. 4 Aug 1789.
common name: Melastomes
  
7
   Subordo  Myrtineae Burnett
pub. Outl. Bot.: 616, 617, 1092, 1128. Jun 1835.
  
 
8
   Familia  Myrtaceae Juss.
pub. Gen. Pl.: 322. 4 Aug 1789.
common name: Myrtles
  
9
   Familia  Oliniaceae Harv. & Sond.
pub. Fl. Cap. 2: ix. 15-31 Oct 1862.
10
   Subordo  Onagrineae Rchb.
pub. Deut. Bot. Herb.-Buch: lxviii. Jul 1841.
  
 
11
   Familia  Onagraceae Juss.
pub. Gen. Pl.: 317. 4 Aug 1789.
common name: Evening-primroses
  
12
   Familia  Penaeaceae Sweet ex Guill. in Bory
pub. Dict. Class. Hist. Nat. 13: 171. 1 Mar 1828, nom. cons.
13
   Familia  Psiloxylaceae Croizat
pub. Principia Bot.: 604, 1161, 1164. Jun 1960.
14
   Familia  Rhynchocalycaceae L.A.S. Johnson & B.G. Briggs
pub. Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 71: 732. 19 Apr 1985.
15
   Familia  Trapaceae Dumort.
pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 36, 39. 1829, nom. cons.
  

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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