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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Pereskia

Hierarchical position of the Genus Pereskia

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       Subfamilia  Pereskioideae Engelm. in W.H. Brewer & S. Watson pub. Bot. Calif. 1: 243. 1876.    Tribus  Pereskieae Rchb. pub. Fl. Germ. Excurs. 2(2): 561. 1832.    Genus  Pereskia Mill. pub. (1754) common name: pereskia

Named members of the Genus Pereskia

1	Species  aculeata P. Mill.
	2    Varietas  godseffiana (hort. ex Gard. Chron.) Backeberg & F.M. syn. Pereskia aculeata
3	Species  grandifolia Haw. common name: rose cactus
4	Species  pereskia (L.) Karst. syn. Pereskia aculeata

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.