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Vernacular names of plants within the Family Dracaenaceae

Hierarchical position of the Family Dracaenaceae

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  Asteliales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 59. 1829.       Familia  Dracaenaceae Salisb. pub. Gen. Pl.: 73. Apr-Mai 1866.

Named members of the Family Dracaenaceae

1	Genus  Beaucarnea Lem.
2	Genus  Calibanus Rose
3	Genus  Dasylirion Zucc. common name: sotol
4	Subfamilia  Dracaenoideae Link pub. Handbuch 1: 187. Jan-Aug 1829.
	5    Tribus  Dracaeneae Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 60. 1829.      6    Genus  Dracaena Vand. ex L. pub. (1767) common name: dracaena
7	Genus  Pleomele Salisb. syn. Dracaena Vand. ex L. common name: hala pepe
8	Tribus  Sansevierieae Baker pub. J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 14: 520. 24 Apr 1875.
	9    Genus  Sansevieria Thunb. pub. (1794) common name: sansevieria

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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