Erythrina
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Erythrina

Indian coral tree
bucayo
cock's spur
coral bean
coralbean
crybabytree
erythrina
machete
mountain immortelle
redcardinal
tiger's claw

Hierarchical position of the Genus Erythrina

   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  Rosidae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 264. Jan-Mar 1967.
  
   SuperOrdo  Fabanae R. Dahlgren ex Reveal
pub. Phytologia 74: 179. 25 Mar 1993.
  
   Ordo  Fabales Bromhead
pub. Edinburgh New Philos. J. 25: 126. Jul 1838.
common name: legumes
  
   Familia  Fabaceae Lindl.
pub. Intr. Nat. Syst. Bot., ed. 2: 148. Jul 1836.
common name: Leguminosae
  
   Tribus  Erythrineae (Benth.) Hassk.
pub. Cat. Hort. Bot. Bogor.: 276. Oct 1844.
  
   Subtribus  Erythrininae Benth.
pub. Comm. Legum Gen.: 113. Jun 1837.
  
   Genus  Erythrina L.
pub. (1753)
common name: erythrina
  

Named members of the Genus Erythrina

1
   Species  abyssinica Lam. ex DC.
common name: erythrina
2
   Species  arborea (Chapman) Small
syn. Erythrina herbacea
3
   Species  berteriana Urban
common name: machete
4
   Species  corallodendron L.
 
5
   Varietas  connata Krukoff
common name: connate erythrina
6
   Species  crista-galli L.
common name: crybabytree
7
   Species  eggersii Krukoff & Moldenke
common name: cock's spur
8
   Species  flabelliformis Kearney
common name: coralbean
9
   Species  fusca Lour.
common name: bucayo
10
   Species  glauca Willd.
syn. Erythrina fusca
11
   Species  herbacea L.
common name: redcardinal, coral bean
  
12
   Species  horrida Eggers
syn. Erythrina eggersii
13
   Species  indica Lam.
syn. Erythrina variegata
14
   Species  lithosperma Miq.
syn. Erythrina subumbrans
15
   Species  poeppigiana (Walp.) O.F. Cook
common name: mountain immortelle
16
   Species  sandwicensis O. Deg.
 
17
   Varietas  luteosperma St. John
syn. Erythrina sandwicensis
18
   Species  subumbrans (Hassk.) Merr.
common name: erythrina
19
   Species  tahitensis auct. p.p. non Nadeaud
syn. Erythrina sandwicensis
20
   Species  variegata L.
common name: dadap  (Hindi), Indian coral tree
  
 
21
   Varietas  orientalis L.
common name: tiger's claw

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.

 

Last reviewed October 31, 2004   

 

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