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Vernacular names of plants within the Order Asparagales

Hierarchical position of the Order Asparagales

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  Liliopsida Brongn. pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xv, 17. 12 Aug 1843. common name: Monocots       Subclassis  Liliidae J.H. Schaffn. pub. Ohio Naturalist 11: 413. Dec 1911.       SuperOrdo  Lilianae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 473. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Asparagales Bromhead pub. Edinburgh New Philos. J. 25: 132. Jul 1838.

Named members of the Order Asparagales

1	Familia  Asparagaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 40. 4 Aug 1789.
2	Familia  Convallariaceae Horan. pub. Prim. Lin. Syst. Nat.: 53. Jul-Dec 1834.
3	Familia  Hypoxidaceae R. Br. in Flinders pub. Voy. Terra Austr. 2: 576. 19 Jul 1814.
4	Familia  Ophiopogonaceae Endl. pub. Ench. Bot.: 90. 15-21 Aug 1841.

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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