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Vernacular names of plants within the Family Melanthiaceae

Hierarchical position of the Family Melanthiaceae

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  Melanthiales R. Dahlgre ex Reveal pub. 1992       Familia  Melanthiaceae Batsch pub. Tab. Affin. Regni Veg.: 133. 2 Mai 1802.

Named members of the Family Melanthiaceae

1	Genus  Amianthium A.Gray common name: amianthium
2	Genus  Campynemanthe Baill.
3	Genus  Chamaelirium Willd. common name: chamaelirium
4	Genus  Harperocallis McDaniel common name: harperocallis
5	Genus  Heloniopsis A.Gray
6	Genus  Japonolirion Nakai
7	Subfamilia  Melanthioideae Eaton pub. Bot. Dict., ed. 4: 27. Apr-Mai 1836.
	8    Tribus  Melanthieae Griseb. pub. Spic. Fl. Rumel. 2: 377. Jan 1846.   9    Genus  Melanthium L. pub. (1753) common name: bunchflower
10	Genus  Metanarthecium Maxim.
11	Genus  Nietneria Klotzsch ex Benth.
12	Genus  Pleea Michx. common name: pleea
13	Genus  Schoenocaulon A.Gray common name: feathershank
14	Genus  Stenanthella Rydb. syn. Stenanthium (A.Gray) Kunth
15	Genus  Stenanthium (A.Gray) Kunth common name: featherbells
16	Subfamilia  Veratroideae Burmeist. pub. Handb. Naturgesch.: 222. 1837.
	17    Tribus  Veratreae T. Nees & C.H. Eberm. ex Endl. pub. Gen. Pl.: 134. Dec 1836.      18    Genus  Veratrum L. pub. (1753) common name: false hellebore
19	Genus  Ypsilandra Franch.
20	Genus  Zigadenus Michx. common name: deathcamas

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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