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Hierarchical position of the Genus Petersia

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  Dilleniidae Takht. ex Reveal & Tahkt. pub. 1993       SuperOrdo  Lecythidanae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 236. 1992.    Ordo  Lecythidales Cronquist pub. Bull. Jard. Bot. Bruxelles 27: 23. 31 Mar 1957.    Familia  Lecythidaceae Poit. pub. M�m. Mus. Hist. Nat. 13: 143. Mar 1825. common name: Brazil-Nuts    Genus  Petersia Welw. ex Benth. syn. Petersianthus Merr.

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.