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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Maxillaria

Hierarchical position of the Genus Maxillaria

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  Liliidae J.H. Schaffn. pub. Ohio Naturalist 11: 413. Dec 1911.       SuperOrdo  Lilianae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 473. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Orchidales Raf. pub. Anal. Nat.: 197. Apr-Jul 1815.       Subordo  Orchidineae Rchb. pub. Deut. Bot. Herb.-Buch: xxxviii. Jul 1841.       Familia  Orchidaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 64. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Orchids       Tribus  Maxillarieae Pfitzer pub. Entwurf. Anordn. Orch.: 105. Jan-Apr 1887.       Subtribus  Maxillariinae Benth. pub. J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 18: 288. 21 Feb 1881.       Genus  Maxillaria Ruiz & Pav. pub. (1794)

Named members of the Genus Maxillaria

1	Species  acutifolia Lindl. common name: rufous tiger orchid
2	Species  coccinea (Jacq.) L.O. Williams ex Hodge common name: flame orchid
3	Species  conferta (Griseb.) C. Schweinf. syn. Maxillaria parviflora
4	Species  crassifolia (Lindl.) Reichenb. f. common name: hidden orchid
5	Species  parviflora (Poepp. & Endl.) Garay common name: purple tiger orchid
6	Species  purpurea (Spreng.) Ames & Correll p.p. syn. Maxillaria parviflora
7	Species  rufescens auct. non Lindl. syn. Maxillaria acutifolia
8	Species  Ruiz & Pav�n common name: tiger orchid
9	Species  sessilis (Sw.) Fawcett & Rendle syn. Maxillaria crassifolia

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.