Myrica
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Myrica

bayberry
candleberry
myrtle
sweetgale
waxberry

Hierarchical position of the Genus Myrica

   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  Hamamelididae Takht.
pub. 1967
  
   SuperOrdo  Juglandanae Takht. ex Reveal
pub. Novon 2: 236. 1992.
  
   Ordo  Myricales Engl. in Engl. & Prantl
pub. Nat. Pflanzenfam. Nachtr.: 345. Dec 1897.
  
   Familia  Myricaceae Blume
pub. Fl. Javae 17-18: 3. 1829.
common name: Bayberries
  
   Subfamilia  Myricoideae (Kunth) Sweet
pub. Hort. Brit.: 370. Sep-Oct 1826.
  
   Tribus  Myriceae DC. ex Duby
pub. Bot. Gall. 1: 430. 12-14 Apr 1828.
  
   Subtribus  Myrciinae O. Berg
pub. Linnaea 27: 4. Nov 1855.
  
   Genus  Myrica L.
pub. (1753)
common name: sweetgale
  

Named members of the Genus Myrica

1
   Species  aspleniifolia L.
 
2
   Varietas  tomentosa (Chev.) Gleason
syn. Comptonia peregrina
3
   Species  californica Cham. & Schlecht.
syn. Morella californica
common name: wax myrtle, California bayberry
  
4
   Species  caroliniensis P. Mill.
syn. Morella caroliniensis
common name: northern bayberry
  
5
   Species  cerifera L.
common name: southern bayberry, candleberry, waxberry, wax myrtle
  
 
6
   Varietas  pumila Michx.
syn. Morella cerifera
7
   Species  faya Ait.
syn. Morella faya
8
   Species  gale L.
common name: sweetgale, pors  (Norwegian), post  (Norwegian), bog myrtle, Roid  (Gaelic)
  
 
9
   Varietas  subarctica Rouss.
syn. Myrica gale
10
   Varietas  subglabra (Chev.) Fern.
syn. Myrica gale
11
   Varietas  tomentosa C. DC.
syn. Myrica gale
12
   Species  hartwegii S. Wats.
common name: Sierra bayberry
13
   Species  heterophylla Raf.
 
14
   Varietas  curtissii (Chev.) Fern.
syn. Morella caroliniensis
15
   Species  holdridgeana Lundell
syn. Morella holdridgeana
16
   Species  inodora Bartr.
syn. Morella inodora
17
   Species  pensylvanica Mirbel
syn. Morella pensylvanica
common name: northern bayberry, swamp candleberry, wax myrtle
  
18
   Species  peregrina (L.) Kuntze
syn. Comptonia peregrina
19
   Species  pusilla Raf.
syn. Morella cerifera
20
   Species  x macfarlanei Youngken
syn. Morella �macfarlanei

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

 

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.

 

Last reviewed November 01, 2004   

 

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