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Vernacular names of plants within the Family Caricaceae

Hierarchical position of the Family Caricaceae

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  Violanae R. Dahlgren ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 237. 1992.       Ordo  Caricales L.D. Benson pub. Pl. Classif.: 648. 1957.       Familia  Caricaceae Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 37, 42. 1829, nom. cons.

Named members of the Family Caricaceae

1	Subfamilia  Caricoideae Kostel. pub. Allg. Med.-Pharm. Fl. 1: 114. Mai 1831.
	2    Tribus  Cariceae Dumort. pub. Fl. Belg.: 145. 1827.      3    Subtribus  Caricinae Boeck. pub. Linnaea 39: 11. Feb 1875.      4    Genus  Carica L. pub. (1753) common name: papaya

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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