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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Maytenus

Hierarchical position of the Genus Maytenus

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       Genus  Maytenus Molina common name: mayten

Named members of the Genus Maytenus

1	Species  cymosa Krug & Urban common name: Caribbean mayten
2	Species  elliptica (Lam.) Krug & Urban ex Duss. syn. Maytenus laevigata
3	Species  elongata (Urban) Britt. common name: Puerto Rico mayten
4	Species  laevigata (Vahl) Griseb. ex Eggers common name: white cinnamon
5	Species  phyllanthoides Benth.
	6    Varietas  ovalifolia Loes. syn. Maytenus phyllanthoides
7	Species  ponceana Britt. common name: ponce mayten
8	Species  texana Lundell syn. Maytenus phyllanthoides

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.