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Vernacular names of plants within the Family Dioscoreaceae

Hierarchical position of the Family Dioscoreaceae

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  Dioscoreales Hook.f. pub. 1876       Familia  Dioscoreaceae R. Br. pub. Prodr.: 294. 27 Mar 1810, nom. cons. common name: Yams

Named members of the Family Dioscoreaceae

1	Genus  Borderea Miegev.
2	Subfamilia  Dioscoreoideae (R. Br.) Arn. pub. Encycl. Brit., ed. 7, 5: 134. 9 Mar 1832.
	3    Tribus  Dioscoreeae Bernh. pub. Ann. Sci. Nat. Bot., s�r. 2, 18: 308. Nov 1842.      4    Genus  Dioscorea L. pub. (1753) common name: yam
5	Genus  Epipetrum Phil.
6	Genus  Nanarepenta Matuda
7	Genus  Rajania L. common name: rajania
8	Genus  Tamnus Mill. pub. (1754)
9	Subfamilia  Tamoideae (Martynov) Arn. pub. Encycl. Brit., ed. 7, 5: 134. 1832.
	10    Tribus  Tameae Spach pub. Hist. Nat. V�g. 12: 200. 27 Jun 1846.      11    Genus  Tamus L. pub. (1753)

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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