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Vernacular names of plants within the Family Welwitschiaceae

Hierarchical position of the Family Welwitschiaceae

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Pinophyta Cronquist syn. Coniferophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: conifers, gymnosperms       Subdivisio  Gnetophytina Cronquist pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 69. 29 Apr 1996.       Classis  Welwitschiopsida B. Boivin pub. Bull. Soc. Bot. France 103: 494. Nov 1956.    Subclassis  Welwitschiidae Cronquist pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 71. 29 Apr 1996.    Ordo  Welwitschiales Skottsb. ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 74: 174. 25 Mar 1993.    Familia  Welwitschiaceae Markg. in Engl. & Prantl pub. Nat. Pflanzenfam., ed. 2, 13: 419. 1926, nom. cons. common name: Welwitschia

Named members of the Family Welwitschiaceae

1	Subfamilia  Tumbopodeae Engl. pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 70. Mai 1898.
	2    Tribus  Tumboeae Baill. pub. Hist. Pl. 12: 51, 54. Dec 1892.   3    Genus  Tumboa Welw. pub. (1861) common name: tumboa
4	Subfamilia  Welwitschioideae Engl. pub. Syllabus, ed. 1: 63. Apr 1892.
	5    Genus  Welwitschia Hook.f. pub. (1862) common name: tumboa, n'tumbo

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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