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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Clethra

Hierarchical position of the Genus Clethra

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  Ericanae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 221. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Ericales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 28. 1829.       Subordo  Ericineae Burnett pub. Outl. Bot.: 901, 937, 938, 1108. Jun 1835.       Familia  Clethraceae Klotzsch pub. Linnaea 24: 12. Mai 1851, nom. cons. common name: Clethras       Tribus  Clethreae Meisn. pub. Pl. Vasc. Gen.: Tab. Diagn. 243, Comm. 155. 18-24 Aug 1839.       Genus  Clethra L. pub. (1753) common name: sweet pepperbush

Named members of the Genus Clethra

1	Species  acuminata Michx. common name: mountain sweet pepperbush
2	Species  alnifolia L. common name: honey-sweet, sweet pepperbush
	3    Varietas  tomentosa (Lam.) Michx. syn. Clethra alnifolia
4	Species  tomentosa Lam. syn. Clethra alnifolia

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.