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Hierarchical position of the Genus Rafflesia

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  Piperopsida Bartl. pub. Ord. Nat. Pl.: 78, 83. Sep 1830.       Subclassis  Piperidae Reveal pub. Phytologia 76: 3. 1994.       SuperOrdo  Rafflesianae Thorne ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 71. 29 Apr 1996.    Ordo  Rafflesiales Oliv. pub. Nat. Hist. Pl. 2: 755. Oct 1895.    Familia  Rafflesiaceae Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 13, 14. 1829, nom. cons. common name: Rafflesias    Subfamilia  Rafflesioideae (Schott & Endl. ex Spach) Walp. pub. Ann. Bot. Syst. 3: 512. 24-25 Aug 1852.    Tribus  Rafflesieae Schott & Endl. ex Spach pub. Hist. Nat. V�g. 10: 551. 20 Mar 1841.    Genus  Rafflesia R. Br. pub. (1821)

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.