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Hierarchical position of the Genus Balanophora

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  Piperopsida Bartl. pub. Ord. Nat. Pl.: 78, 83. Sep 1830.       Subclassis  Piperidae Reveal pub. Phytologia 76: 3. 1994.       SuperOrdo  Balanophoranae R. Dahlgren ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 235. 1992.    Ordo  Balanophorales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 65. 1829.    Subordo  Balanophorineae Engl. pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 108. Mai 1898.    Familia  Balanophoraceae Rich. pub. M�m. Mus. Hist. Nat. 8: 429. 18 Nov 1822.    Subfamilia  Balanophoroideae Engl. in Engl. & Prantl pub. Nat. Pflanzenfam. III, 1: 250, 260. Aug 1889.    Tribus  Balanophoreae Eichler in Fourn. pub. Act. Congr. Intern. Bot.: 152. Nov 1867.    Genus  Balanophora J.R. Forst. & G. Forst. pub. (1775)

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.