Welwitschia
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Hierarchical position of the Genus Welwitschia

   Regnum  Plantae
common name: The plant kingdom
  
   Divisio  Pinophyta Cronquist
syn. Coniferophyta
pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: conifers, gymnosperms
  
   Subdivisio  Gnetophytina Cronquist
pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 69. 29 Apr 1996.
  
   Classis  Welwitschiopsida B. Boivin
pub. Bull. Soc. Bot. France 103: 494. Nov 1956.
   Subclassis  Welwitschiidae Cronquist
pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 71. 29 Apr 1996.
   Ordo  Welwitschiales Skottsb. ex Reveal
pub. Phytologia 74: 174. 25 Mar 1993.
   Familia  Welwitschiaceae Markg. in Engl. & Prantl
pub. Nat. Pflanzenfam., ed. 2, 13: 419. 1926, nom. cons.
common name: Welwitschia
   Subfamilia  Welwitschioideae Engl.
pub. Syllabus, ed. 1: 63. Apr 1892.
   Genus  Welwitschia Hook.f.
pub. (1862)
common name: tumboa, n'tumbo

Named members of the Genus Welwitschia

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   Species  mirabilis Hook.f.

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.

 

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