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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Erica

Hierarchical position of the Genus Erica

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  Ericaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 159. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Heaths, Heathers       Subfamilia  Ericoideae Link pub. Handbuch 1: 602. Jan-Aug 1829.       Tribus  Ericeae DC. ex Duby pub. Bot. Gall. 1: 316. 12-14 Apr 1828.       Subtribus  Ericinae D. Don pub. New Philos. J. Edinburgh 17: 152. Jul 1834.       Genus  Erica L. pub. (1753) common name: heath

Named members of the Genus Erica

1	Species  arborea L. common name: briar root, barberrry, tree heath
2	Species  cinerea L. common name: Scotch heath
3	Species  lusitanica K. Rudolphi common name: Spanish heath, heather
4	Species  tetralix L. common name: crossleaf heath
5	Species  vagans L. common name: Cornish heath

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.