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[ Rhetinosperma ] [ Rheum ] [ Rhexia ]

Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Rheum

Hierarchical position of the Genus Rheum

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  Polygonanae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 236. 1992.       Ordo  Polygonales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 15. 1829.       Familia  Polygonaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 82. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Knotweeds       Tribus  Rheeae Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 18. 1829.       Genus  Rheum L. pub. (1753) common name: rhubarb

Named members of the Genus Rheum

1	Species  officinale Baillon common name: Chinese rhubarb
2	Species  palmatum L. common name: Chinese rhubarb, da huang  (Chinese)
3	Species  rhabarbarum L. common name: rhubarb

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.