Actaea
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Actaea

baneberry
doll's eye

Hierarchical position of the Genus Actaea

   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  Ranunculopsida Brongn.
pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xxvi, 96. 12 Aug 1843.
  
   Subclassis  Ranunculidae Takht. ex Reveal
pub. Novon 2: 235. 1992.
  
   SuperOrdo  Ranunculanae Takht. ex Reveal
pub. Novon 2: 236. 1992.
  
   Ordo  Ranunculales Dumort.
pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 44. 1829.
  
   Subordo  Ranunculineae Bessey in C.K. Adams
pub. Johnson's Universal Cyclop. 8: 460. 1 Nov 1895.
  
   Familia  Ranunculaceae Juss.
pub. Gen. Pl.: 231. 4 Aug 1789, nom. cons.
common name: Buttercups
  
   Tribus  Actaeeae Spach
pub. Hist. Nat. V�g. 7: 292, 383. 4 Mai 1838.
  
   Genus  Actaea L.
pub. (1753)
common name: baneberry
  

Named members of the Genus Actaea

1
   Species  alba auct. non (L.) P. Mill.
syn. Actaea pachypoda
2
   Species  arguta Nutt.
 
3
   Varietas  viridiflora (Greene) Tidestrom
syn. Actaea rubra ssp. arguta
4
   Species  pachypoda Ell.
common name: white baneberry, doll's eye
  
5
   Species  rubra (Ait.) Willd.
common name: red baneberry
  
 
6
   Subspecies  arguta (Nutt.) Hult�n
common name: red baneberry
7
   Varietas  arguta (Nutt.) Lawson
syn. Actaea rubra ssp. arguta
8
   Subspecies  rubra
common name: red baneberry
9
   Species  spicata L.
 
10
   Varietas  arguta (Nutt.) Torr.
syn. Actaea rubra ssp. arguta
11
   Subspecies  rubra (Ait.) Hult�n
syn. Actaea rubra ssp. rubra
12
   Species  x ludovici Boivin

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

 

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.

 

Last reviewed October 31, 2004   

 

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