Dirca
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Dirca

leatherwood

Hierarchical position of the Genus Dirca

   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  Thymelaeales Willk.
pub. Anleit. Stud. Bot. 2: 235. Feb 1854.
  
   Subordo  Thymelaeineae Engl.
pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 158. Mai 1898.
  
   Familia  Thymelaeaceae Juss.
pub. Gen. Pl.: 76. 4 Aug 1789.
common name: Mezereums
  
   Genus  Dirca L.
common name: leatherwood

Named members of the Genus Dirca

1
   Species  occidentalis Gray
common name: western leatherwood
2
   Species  palustris L.
common name: eastern leatherwood

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.

 

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