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Vernacular names of plants within the Family Myristicaceae

Hierarchical position of the Family Myristicaceae

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  Magnoliopsida Brongn. pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xxvi, 95. 12 Aug 1843. common name: Dicots       Subclassis  Magnoliidae Nov�k ex Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 51. Jan-Mar 1967.       SuperOrdo  Magnolianae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 51. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Myristicales Thom� pub. Lehrb. Bot., ed. 5: 254, 267. 1877.       Familia  Myristicaceae R. Br. pub. Prodr.: 399. 27 Mar 1810.

Named members of the Family Myristicaceae

1	Genus  Brochoneura Warb.
2	Genus  Cephalosphaera Warb.
3	Genus  Coelocaryon Warb.
4	Genus  Compsoneura (DC.) Warb.
5	Genus  Dialyanthera Warb. syn. Otoba (DC.) H.Karst.
6	Genus  Endocomia W.J.de Wilde
7	Genus  Gymnacranthera Warb.
8	Genus  Haematodendron Capuron
9	Genus  Horsfieldia Willd.
10	Genus  Iryanthera Warb.
11	Genus  Knema Lour.
12	Genus  Maloutchia Warb.
13	Genus  Myristica Gronov. pub. (1755) common name: nutmeg
14	Genus  Ochocoa Pierre syn. Scyphocephalium Warb.
15	Genus  Osteophloeum Warb.
16	Genus  Otoba (DC.) H.Karst.
17	Genus  Pycnanthus Warb.
18	Genus  Scyphocephalium Warb.
19	Genus  Staudtia Warb.
20	Genus  Virola Aubl. common name: virola

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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