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Hierarchical position of the Family Melianthaceae

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.       Subordo  Melianthineae Engl. pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 146. Mai 1898.       Familia  Melianthaceae Link pub. Handbuch 2: 322. Jan-Aug 1831. common name: Melianthus

Named members of the Family Melianthaceae

1	Tribus  Bersameae Planch. pub. Trans. Linn. Soc. London 20: 416. 1851.
	2    Genus  Bersama Fresen. pub. (1820)
3	Subfamilia  Melianthoideae Kostel. pub. Allg. Med.-Pharm. Fl. 5: 1808. Jan-Sep 1836.
	4    Tribus  Meliantheae Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 45. 1829.      5    Genus  Melianthus 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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