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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Areca

Hierarchical position of the Genus Areca

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  Arecidae Takht. pub. 1967       SuperOrdo  Arecanae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 525. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Arecales Bromhead pub. 1840       Familia  Arecaceae Schultz Sch. pub. Nat. Syst. Pflanzenr.: 317. 1832, nom. cons. common name: Palmae, palms       Familia  Palmae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 37. 4 Aug 1789, nom. cons. common name: palms       Subfamilia  Arecoideae Burnett pub. Outl. Bot.: 401. Jun 1835.       Tribus  Areceae Mart. ex Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 55. 1829.       Subtribus  Arecinae Wendl. pub. J. Bot. 3: 383. 1 Dec 1865.       Genus  Areca L. pub. (1753) common name: areca palm

Named members of the Genus Areca

1	Species  catechu L. common name: cutch, Bombay catechu, betal nut palm, Pinang
2	Species  cathecu L. syn. Areca catechu

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.