Welwitschiopsida
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Vernacular names of plants within the Class Welwitschiopsida

n'tumbo
tumboa
welwitschia

Hierarchical position of the Class Welwitschiopsida

   Regnum  Plantae
common name: The plant kingdom
  
   Divisio  Pinophyta Cronquist
syn. Coniferophyta
pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: conifers, gymnosperms
  
   Subdivisio  Gnetophytina Cronquist
pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 69. 29 Apr 1996.
  
   Classis  Welwitschiopsida B. Boivin
pub. Bull. Soc. Bot. France 103: 494. Nov 1956.

Named members of the Class Welwitschiopsida

1
   Subclassis  Welwitschiidae Cronquist
pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 71. 29 Apr 1996.
 
2
   Ordo  Welwitschiales Skottsb. ex Reveal
pub. Phytologia 74: 174. 25 Mar 1993.

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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