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Vernacular names of plants within the Order Dioscoreales

Hierarchical position of the Order Dioscoreales

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  Dioscoreales Hook.f. pub. 1876

Named members of the Order Dioscoreales

1	Familia  Avetraceae Takht. pub. Divers. Classif. Fl. Pl.: 524. 1 Mai 1997.
2	Familia  Croomiaceae Nakai pub. Iconogr. Pl. As. Orient. 2: 159. Nov 1937.
3	Familia  Dioscoreaceae R. Br. pub. Prodr.: 294. 27 Mar 1810, nom. cons. common name: Yams
4	Familia  Pentastemonaceae Duyfjes pub. Blumea 36: 552. 9 Jun 1992.
5	Familia  Stemonaceae Engl. in Engl. & Prantl pub. Nat. Pflanzenfam., II, 5: 8. 26 Mar 1887, nom. cons.
6	Familia  Stenomeridaceae J. Agardh pub. Theoria Syst. Pl.: 66. Apr-Sep 1858.
7	Familia  Taccaceae Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 57, 58. 1829, nom. cons.
8	Familia  Trichopodaceae Hutch. pub. Fam. Fl. Pl. 2: 143. 1934, nom. cons.

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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