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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Ailanthus

Hierarchical position of the Genus Ailanthus

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  Rutanae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 311. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Rutales Perleb pub. Lehrb. Naturgesch. Pflanzenr.: 324. Sep-Oct 1826.       Familia  Simaroubaceae DC. pub. Ann. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat. 17: 422. Jul-Aug 1811.       Subfamilia  Ailanthoideae Arn. in Wight & Arn. pub. Prodr. Fl. Ind. Orient.: 150. 10 Oct 1834.       Tribus  Ailantheae (Arn.) Meisn. pub. Pl. Vasc. Gen.: Tab. Diagn. 65, Comm. 47. 21-27 Mai 1837.       Subtribus  Ailanthinae Engl. in Mart. pub. Fl. Bras. 12(2): 201. 1 Sep 1874.       Genus  Ailanthus Desf. pub. (1788) common name: ailanthus

Named members of the Genus Ailanthus

1	Species  altissima (P. Mill.) Swingle common name: tree of heaven, chun pi  (Chinese)
2	Species  glandulosa Desf. syn. Ailanthus altissima common name: tree of heaven, Chinese sumac, paradise tree

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.