Hippocastanaceae
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Vernacular names of plants within the Family Hippocastanaceae

buckeye
horse-chestnut

Hierarchical position of the Family Hippocastanaceae

   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  Rosidae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 264. Jan-Mar 1967.
  
   SuperOrdo  Rutanae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 311. Jan-Mar 1967.
  
   Ordo  Sapindales Dumort.
pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 43. 1829.
  
   Familia  Hippocastanaceae DC.
pub. Prodr. 1: 597. Jan 1824.
common name: Horse-chestnut, Buckeyes
  

Named members of the Family Hippocastanaceae

1
   Tribus  Aesculeae Baill.
pub. Hist. Pl. 5: 378, 424. Dec 1874.
  
 
2
   Genus  Aesculus L.
pub. (1753)
common name: buckeye
  
3
   Genus  Billia Peyr.
4
   Subfamilia  Hippocastanoideae Burnett
pub. Outl. Bot.: 891, 1093, 1126. Jun 1835.
 
5
   Tribus  Hippocastaneae (DC.) Dumort.
pub. Fl. Belg.: 113. 1827.
 
6
   Genus  Hippocastanum Mill.
pub. (1754)
7
   Subfamilia  Pavioideae Horan.
pub. Char. Ess. Fam.: 182. 1847.
 
8
   Genus  Pavia Mill.
pub. (1754)

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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