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Vernacular names of plants within the Order Lecythidales

Hierarchical position of the Order Lecythidales

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  Lecythidanae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 236. 1992.    Ordo  Lecythidales Cronquist pub. Bull. Jard. Bot. Bruxelles 27: 23. 31 Mar 1957.

Named members of the Order Lecythidales

1	Familia  Asteranthaceae R. Knuth in Engl. pub. Pflanzenr., IV, 219b (Heft 105): 1. 22 Aug 1939, nom. cons.
2	Familia  Foetidiaceae (Nied.) Airy Shaw pub. Kew Bull. 18: 258. 8 Dec 1964.
3	Familia  Lecythidaceae Poit. pub. M�m. Mus. Hist. Nat. 13: 143. Mar 1825. common name: Brazil-Nuts
4	Familia  Napoleonaeaceae A. Rich. in Bory pub. Dict. Class. Hist. Nat. 11: 432. 10 Feb 1827.

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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