Ericineae
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Vernacular names of plants within the Suborder Ericineae

Florida hobblebush
brittleleaf
buckwheat tree
clethras
cliftonia
coneplant
doghobble
elliottia
fetterbush
harrimanella
heathers
heaths
honeycup
huckleberry
kalmiopsis
laurel
leatherleaf
loiseleuria
manzanita
mountain heather
ornithostaphylos
orthilia
pinefoot
prince's pine
pygmypipes
single delight
snowplant
staggerbush
sugarstick
summer holly
swamp cranberry
sweet pepperbush
symphysia
trailing arbutus

Hierarchical position of the Suborder Ericineae

   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  Ericanae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 221. Jan-Mar 1967.
  
   Ordo  Ericales Dumort.
pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 28. 1829.
  
   Subordo  Ericineae Burnett
pub. Outl. Bot.: 901, 937, 938, 1108. Jun 1835.
  

Named members of the Suborder Ericineae

1
   Familia  Clethraceae Klotzsch
pub. Linnaea 24: 12. Mai 1851, nom. cons.
common name: Clethras
  
 
2
   Familia  Cyrillaceae Endl.
pub. Ench. Bot.: 578. 15-21 Aug 1841.
  
 
3
   Subfamilia  Cyrilloideae Torr. & A. Gray
pub. Fl. N. Amer. 1: 256. Oct 1838.
4
   Familia  Ericaceae Juss.
pub. Gen. Pl.: 159. 4 Aug 1789.
common name: Heaths, Heathers
  
 
5
   Subfamilia  Andromedoideae K. Koch
pub. Dendrologie 2(1): 111. 1872.
6
   Subfamilia  Arbutoideae Nied.
pub. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 11: 135. 18 Jun 1889.
  
7
   Subfamilia  Empetroideae Nutt. ex Sweet
pub. Hort. Brit.: 491. Sep-Oct 1826.
  
8
   Subfamilia  Epacridoideae Link
pub. Handbuch 1: 601. Jan-Aug 1829.
  
9
   Subfamilia  Ericoideae Link
pub. Handbuch 1: 602. Jan-Aug 1829.
  
10
   Subfamilia  Ledoideae Alef.
pub. Linnaea 28: 3, 7. Aug 1856.
  
11
   Subfamilia  Monotropoideae (Nutt.) Arn.
pub. Encycl. Brit., ed. 7, 5: 118. 9 Mar 1832.
  
12
   Subfamilia  Pyroloideae Kostel.
pub. Allg. Med.-Pharm. Fl. 3: 1026. Apr-Dec 1834.
  
13
   Subfamilia  Rhodordendroideae (Juss.) Sweet
pub. Brit. Fl. Gard. 3: 263. Aug 1828.
  
14
   Subfamilia  Rhodoroideae Kostel.
pub. Allg. Med.-Pharm. Fl. 3: 1015. Apr-Dec 1834.
15
   Subfamilia  Styphelioideae Sweet
pub. Fl. Australas.: ad t. 47. 1 Mai 1828.
16
   Subfamilia  Vaccinioideae Arn.
pub. Encycl. Brit., ed. 7, 5: 118. 9 Mar 1832.
  
17
   Familia  Oxycoccaceae A. Kern.
pub. Pflanzenleben 2: 713, 714. 1891.
 

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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