Hypoxidaceae
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Vernacular names of plants within the Family Hypoxidaceae

curculigo
gorgojo
palm-grass
star-grass

Hierarchical position of the Family Hypoxidaceae

   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  Asparagales Bromhead
pub. Edinburgh New Philos. J. 25: 132. Jul 1838.
  
   Familia  Hypoxidaceae R. Br. in Flinders
pub. Voy. Terra Austr. 2: 576. 19 Jul 1814.

Named members of the Family Hypoxidaceae

1
   Tribus  Curculigeae Dumort.
pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 58. 1829.
 
2
   Genus  Curculigo Gaertn.
pub. (1788)
common name: curculigo
3
   Genus  Empodium Salisb.
4
   Genus  Hypoxidia Friedmann
5
   Subfamilia  Hypoxidoideae Burnett
pub. Outl. Bot.: 446. Jun 1835.
 
6
   Tribus  Hypoxideae Bernh.
pub. Flora 23: 426. 21 Jul 1840.
 
7
   Genus  Hypoxis L.
pub. (1759)
common name: star-grass
8
   Genus  Ianthe Salisb.
syn. Hypoxis L.
9
   Genus  Molineria Colla
10
   Genus  Pauridia Harv.
11
   Genus  Rhodohypoxis Nel
12
   Genus  Saniella Hilliard & B.L.Burtt
13
   Genus  Spiloxene Salisb.

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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