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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Cercis

Hierarchical position of the Genus Cercis

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  Fabanae R. Dahlgren ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 74: 179. 25 Mar 1993.       Ordo  Fabales Bromhead pub. Edinburgh New Philos. J. 25: 126. Jul 1838. common name: legumes       Familia  Caesalpiniaceae R. Br. in Flinders pub. Voy. Terra Austr. 2: 551. 19 Jun 1814.       Tribus  Cercideae Bronn pub. Form. Pl. Legumin.: ad Sect. 134, 131. 1822.       Genus  Cercis L. pub. (1753) common name: redbud

Named members of the Genus Cercis

1	Species  canadensis L. common name: eastern redbud
	2    Varietas  canadensis common name: eastern redbud 3    Subspecies  mexicana (Rose) E. Murr. syn. Cercis canadensis var. mexicana 4    Varietas  mexicana (Rose) M. Hopkins common name: Mexican redbud 5    Varietas  orbiculata (Greene) Barneby syn. Cercis orbiculata 6    Subspecies  texensis (S. Wats.) E. Murr. syn. Cercis canadensis var. texensis 7    Varietas  texensis (S. Wats.) M. Hopkins common name: Texas redbud
8	Species  occidentalis Torr. ex Gray common name: western redbud, California redbud
	9    Varietas  orbiculata (Greene) Tidestrom syn. Cercis orbiculata
10	Species  orbiculata Greene common name: California redbud

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.