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Vernacular names of plants within the Family Agavaceae

Hierarchical position of the Family Agavaceae

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  Agavales Hutch. pub. Fam. Fl. Pl. 2: 14, 149. 1934.       Familia  Agavaceae Endl. pub. Ench. Bot.: 105. 15-21 Aug 1841. common name: Agaves

Named members of the Family Agavaceae

1	Subfamilia  Agavoideae Herb. pub. Amaryllidaceae: 48, 57, 67, 121. late Apr 1837.
	2    Tribus  Agaveae Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 58. 1829.      3    Genus  Agave L. pub. (1753) common name: agave
4	Genus  Beschorneria Kunth
5	Genus  Bravoa Lex.
6	Genus  Clistoyucca (Engelm.) Trel.
7	Genus  Cordyline Comm. ex R.Br. common name: cordyline
8	Genus  Furcraea Vent. common name: furcraea
9	Genus  Hesperaloe Engelm. common name: false yucca
10	Genus  Hesperoyucca Baker syn. Yucca L.
11	Genus  Manfreda Salisb. syn. Agave L. common name: tuberose
12	Genus  Polianthes L. common name: polianthes
13	Genus  Prochnyanthes S.Watson
14	Genus  Pseudobravoa Rose
15	Genus  Runyonia Rose syn. Agave L.
16	Genus  Samuela Trel.
17	Genus  Sarcoyucca (Engelm.) Linding. syn. Yucca L.
18	Genus  Taetsia Medik. syn. Cordyline Comm. ex R.Br.
19	Subfamilia  Yuccoideae Kostel. pub. Allg. Med.-Pharm. Fl. 1: 168. Mai 1831.
	20    Tribus  Yucceae Bartl. pub. Ord. Nat. Pl.: 50. Sep 1830.      21    Genus  Yucca L. pub. (1753) common name: yucca

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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