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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Carissa

Hierarchical position of the Genus Carissa

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  Lamiidae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 74: 178. 25 Mar 1993.       SuperOrdo  Gentiananae Thorne ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 236. 1992.       Ordo  Apocynales Bromhead pub. 1838       Familia  Apocynaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 143. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Dogbanes       Subfamilia  Carissoideae Endl. pub. Gen. Pl.: 578. Feb 1838.       Tribus  Carisseae Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 26. 1829.       Subtribus  Carissinae A. DC. pub. Prodr. 8: 324. mid Mar 1844.       Genus  Carissa L. pub. (1767) common name: carissa

Named members of the Genus Carissa

1	Species  carandas L. common name: karanda
2	Species  edulis Vahl common name: Egyptian carissa
3	Species  grandiflora (E. Mey.) A. DC. syn. Carissa macrocarpa common name: natal plum, amatungulu
4	Species  macrocarpa (Ecklon) A. DC. common name: amatungulu

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.