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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Echites

Hierarchical position of the Genus Echites

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  Echitoideae Kostel. pub. Allg. Med.-Pharm. Fl. 3: 1054. Apr-Dec 1834.       Tribus  Echiteae Bartl. pub. Ord. Nat. Pl.: 204. Sep 1830.       Subtribus  Echitinae (Bartl.) Kitt. pub. Taschenb. Fl. Deutschl., 2, 1: 449. Nov 1843.       Genus  Echites P. Browne pub. (1756) common name: echites

Named members of the Genus Echites

1	Species  agglutinata Jacq. syn. Prestonia agglutinata
2	Species  echites (L.) Britt. ex Small syn. Echites umbellata
3	Species  umbellata Jacq. common name: devil's potato

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.