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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Elaeis

Hierarchical position of the Genus Elaeis

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  Liliopsida Brongn. pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xv, 17. 12 Aug 1843. common name: Monocots       Subclassis  Arecidae Takht. pub. 1967       SuperOrdo  Arecanae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 525. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Arecales Bromhead pub. 1840       Familia  Arecaceae Schultz Sch. pub. Nat. Syst. Pflanzenr.: 317. 1832, nom. cons. common name: Palmae, palms       Subtribus  Elaeidinae Drude in Mart. pub. Fl. Brasil. 3(2): 395. 1 Mai 1882.    Genus  Elaeis Jacq. pub. (1763) common name: oil palm

Named members of the Genus Elaeis

1	Species  guineensis Jacq. common name: African oil palm
2	Species  oleifera (Kunth) Cortes common name: American oil palm

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.