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Hierarchical position of the Genus Cacao

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  Dilleniidae Takht. ex Reveal & Tahkt. pub. 1993       SuperOrdo  Malvanae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 242. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Malvales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 43. 1829.       Subordo  Malvineae Rchb. pub. Deut. Bot. Herb.-Buch: lxxxi. Jul 1841.       Familia  Sterculiaceae (DC.) Bartl. pub. Ord. Nat. Pl.: 225, 340. Sep 1830, nom. cons. common name: Cacaoss       Genus  Cacao Mill. pub. (1754)

Named members of the Genus Cacao

1	Species  bicolor (Humb. & Bonpl.) Poiret syn. Theobroma bicolor

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.