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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Vitellaria

Hierarchical position of the Genus Vitellaria

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  Primulanae R. Dahlgren ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 71. 29 Apr 1996.       Ordo  Styracales Bisch. pub. Lehrb. Bot. 2(2): 655. 1839.       Subordo  Sapotineae Engl. pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 169. Mai 1898.       Familia  Sapotaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 151. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Sapodillas       Genus  Vitellaria C.F.Gaertn.

Named members of the Genus Vitellaria

1	Species  Gaertner f. common name: vitellaria
2	Species  paradoxa Gaertner f. common name: shea butter

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.