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Hierarchical position of the Genus Mussaenda

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  Lamiidae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 74: 178. 25 Mar 1993.       SuperOrdo  Gentiananae Thorne ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 236. 1992.       Ordo  Rubiales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 29. 1829.       Subordo  Rubiineae Raf. pub. Ann. G�n. Sci. Phys. Bruxelles 6: 83. 1820.       Familia  Rubiaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 196. 4 Aug 1789, nom. cons. common name: Madders       Subfamilia  Mussaendoideae (Benth. & Hook.f.) Luerss. pub. Handb. Syst. Bot. 2: 1083. Nov 1882.    Tribus  Mussaendeae Benth. & Hook.f. pub. Gen. Pl. 2: 8, 15. 7-9 Apr 1873.    Subtribus  Mussaendinae K. Schum. in Engl. & Prantl pub. Nat. Pflanzenfam. IV, 4: 16, 60. Dec 1891.    Genus  Mussaenda L. pub. (1753)

Named members of the Genus Mussaenda

1	Species  formosa Jacq. syn. Randia formosa

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.