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Hierarchical position of the Family Peridiscaceae

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  Dilleniidae Takht. ex Reveal & Tahkt. pub. 1993       SuperOrdo  Violanae R. Dahlgren ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 237. 1992.       Ordo  Violales Perleb pub. Lehrb. Naturgesch. Pflanzenr.: 316. Sep-Oct 1826.       Familia  Peridiscaceae Kuhlm. pub. Arq. Serv. Florest. 3: 4. 1950, nom. cons.

Named members of the Family Peridiscaceae

1	Genus  Peridiscus Benth. & Hook.f. pub. (1862)
2	Genus  Whittonia Sandwith

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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