Sapium
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Sapium

Chinese tallow tree
gumtree
hinchahuevos
milktree

Hierarchical position of the Genus Sapium

   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
  
   Subfamilia  Sapioideae Burmeist.
pub. Handb. Naturgesch.: 246. 1837.
  
   Genus  Sapium Jacq.
pub. (1760)
common name: milktree
  

Named members of the Genus Sapium

1
   Species  aucuparium auct. non Jacq.
syn. Sapium laurifolium
2
   Species  biloculare (S. Wats.) Pax
syn. Sebastiania bilocularis
3
   Species  caribaeum Urban
common name: gumtree
4
   Species  glandulosum auct. non (L.) Morong
syn. Sapium caribaeum
5
   Species  jamaicense Sw. nom. illeg.
syn. Sapium laurifolium
6
   Species  laurifolium (A. Rich.) Griseb.
common name: hinchahuevos
7
   Species  laurocerasus Desf.
common name: milktree
8
   Species  sebiferum (L.) Roxb.
syn. Triadica sebifera
common name: Chinese tallow tree
  

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.

 

Last reviewed November 01, 2004   

 

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