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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Portulacaria

Hierarchical position of the Genus Portulacaria

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  Portulacineae Engl. pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 113. Mai 1898.       Familia  Portulacaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 312. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Purslanes       Tribus  Portulacarieae Fenzl pub. Ann. Wiener Mus. Naturgesch. 2: 294. Feb 1839.    Genus  Portulacaria Jacq. pub. (1787) common name: portulacaria

Named members of the Genus Portulacaria

1	Species  afra (L.) Jacq. common name: elephant bush

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.