Zygophyllaceae
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Vernacular names of plants within the Family Zygophyllaceae

African rue
Arizona poppy
Jamaican feverplant
balanites
balsamo
beancaper
caltrop
chaparral
creosote bush
desert date
fagonbush
garbancillo
harmala
holywood
lignum-vitae
manduro
peganum
puncturevine

Hierarchical position of the Family Zygophyllaceae

   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  Geranianae Thorne ex Reveal
pub. Novon 2: 236. 1992.
  
   Ordo  Linales Baskerville
pub. Aff. Pl.: 107. 1839.
  
   Familia  Zygophyllaceae
common name: Caltrops
  

Named members of the Family Zygophyllaceae

1
   Genus  Augea Thunb.
2
   Genus  Balanites Delile
common name: balanites
3
   Genus  Bulnesia Gay
common name: lignum-vitae
4
   Genus  Covillea Vail
syn. Larrea Cav.
  
5
   Genus  Ehrenbergia Mart.
syn. Kallstroemia Scop.
6
   Genus  Fagonia L.
common name: fagonbush
7
   Genus  Gonoptera Turcz.
syn. Bulnesia Gay
8
   Genus  Guaiacum L.   
9
   Genus  Guajacum L.
syn. Guaiacum L.
common name: lignum-vitae
10
   Genus  Kallstroemia Scop.
common name: caltrop
11
   Genus  Kelleronia Schinz
12
   Genus  Larrea Cav.
common name: creosote bush
  
13
   Genus  Malacocarpus Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
14
   Genus  Metharme Phil. ex Engl.
15
   Genus  Miltianthus Bunge
16
   Genus  Morkillia Rose & Painter
17
   Genus  Neoluederitzia Schinz
18
   Genus  Neoschroetera Briq.
syn. Larrea Cav.
19
   Genus  Nitraria L.
20
   Genus  Peganum L.
common name: peganum
  
21
   Genus  Pintoa Gay
22
   Genus  Plectrocarpa Gillies ex Hook. & Arn.
23
   Genus  Porlieria Ruiz & Pav.
24
   Genus  Roepera A.Juss.
syn. Zygophyllum L.
25
   Genus  Sarcozygium Bunge
26
   Genus  Schroeterella Briq.
syn. Larrea Cav.
27
   Genus  Seetzenia R.Br. ex Decne.
28
   Genus  Sisyndite E.Mey. ex Sond.
29
   Genus  Tetradiclis Steven ex M.Bieb.
30
   Genus  Tetraena Maxim.
31
   Genus  Tribulopis R.Br.
32
   Genus  Tribulopsis R.Br.
syn. Tribulopis R.Br.
33
   Genus  Tribulus L.
common name: puncturevine
34
   Genus  Viscainoa Greene
35
   Genus  Zygophyllum L.
common name: beancaper

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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