Elaeis
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Elaeis

oil palm

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.

 

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