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Hierarchical position of the Genus Poinsettia

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  Euphorbianae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 236. 1992.       Ordo  Euphorbiales Lindl. pub. Nix. Pl.: 13. 17 Sep 1833.       Familia  Euphorbiaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 384. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Spurges       Genus  Poinsettia Graham syn. Euphorbia L.

Named members of the Genus Poinsettia

1	Species  barbellata Small syn. Euphorbia cyathophora
2	Species  cuphosperma Engelm. syn. Euphorbia cuphosperma
3	Species  cyathophora (Murr.) Klotzsch & Garcke
	4    Varietas  graminifolia (Engelm.) Mohlenbrock syn. Euphorbia cyathophora
5	Species  dentata (Michx.) Klotzsch & Garcke
	6    Varietas  cuphosperma (Engelm.) Mohlenbrock syn. Euphorbia cuphosperma
7	Species  geniculata (Ortega) Klotzsch & Garcke syn. Euphorbia heterophylla
8	Species  graminifolia (Michx.) Millsp. syn. Euphorbia cyathophora
9	Species  havanensis (Willd. ex Schlecht. & Cham.) Small syn. Euphorbia cyathophora
10	Species  heterophylla (L.) Klotzsch & Garcke syn. Euphorbia heterophylla
11	Species  pinetorum Small syn. Euphorbia pinetorum
12	Species  pulcherrima (Willd. ex Klotzsch) Graham syn. Euphorbia pulcherrima
13	Species  radians (Benth.) Klotzsch & Garcke syn. Euphorbia radians

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.