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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Hippocratea

Hierarchical position of the Genus Hippocratea

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  Celastranae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 371. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Celastrales Baskerville pub. Aff. Pl.: 104. 1839.       Subordo  Celastrineae Bessey in C.K. Adams pub. Johnson's Universal Cyclop. 8: 462. 15 Nov 1895.       Familia  Celastraceae R. Br. in Flinders pub. Voy. Terra Austr. 2: 554. 19 Jul 1814. common name: Bittersweets       Subfamilia  Hippocrateoideae (Juss.) Lindl. pub. Intr. Nat. Syst. Bot., ed. 2: 120. Jul 1836.    Tribus  Hippocrateeae Rchb. pub. Handb. Nat. Pfl.-Syst.: 301. 1-7 Oct 1837.    Genus  Hippocratea L. pub. (1753) common name: hippocratea

Named members of the Genus Hippocratea

1	Species  caribaea Urban syn. Pristimera caribaea
2	Species  volubilis L. common name: medicine vine

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.