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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Melocactus

Hierarchical position of the Genus Melocactus

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  Caryophyllidae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 144. Jan-Mar 1967.       SuperOrdo  Caryophyllanae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 144. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Caryophyllales Perleb pub. 1826       Subordo  Cactineae Bessey in C.K. Adams pub. Johnson's Universal Cyclop. 8: 462. 15 Nov 1895.       Familia  Cactaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 310. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Cactus       Tribus  Melocacteae Salm-Dyck pub. Allg. Gartenzeitung 8: 58. 22 Feb 1840.    Genus  Melocactus Link & Otto pub. (1827)

Named members of the Genus Melocactus

1	Species  intortus (P. Mill.) Urban common name: Turk's cap
2	Species  Link & Otto common name: melocactus

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.