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Vernacular names of plants within the Family Xyridaceae

Hierarchical position of the Family Xyridaceae

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  Commelinidae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 171. Jan-Mar 1967. common name: Grasses, Sedges, Rushes       SuperOrdo  Commelinanae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 514. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Xyridales Lindl. pub. Veg. Kingd.: lvii, 185. Jan-Mai 1846.    Familia  Xyridaceae C. Agardh pub. Aphor. Bot. (11): 158. 23 Mai 1823. common name: Yellow-eyed Grasses

Named members of the Family Xyridaceae

1	Genus  Abolboda Humb. & Bonpl. pub. (1813)
2	Genus  Achlyphila Maguire & Wurdack
3	Genus  Aratitiyopea Steyerm.
4	Genus  Orectanthe Maguire
5	Subfamilia  Xyridoideae Kunth ex Arn. pub. Encycl. Brit., ed. 7, 5: 135. 9 Mar 1832.
	6    Tribus  Xyrideae Rchb. pub. Fl. Germ. Excurs. 1(1): 14.   7    Genus  Xyris L. pub. (1753) common name: yelloweyed grass

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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