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Vernacular names of plants within the Order Xyridales

Hierarchical position of the Order Xyridales

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  Commelinidae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 171. Jan-Mar 1967. common name: Grasses, Sedges, Rushes       SuperOrdo  Commelinanae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 514. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Xyridales Lindl. pub. Veg. Kingd.: lvii, 185. Jan-Mai 1846.

Named members of the Order Xyridales

1	Familia  Mayacaceae Kunth pub. Abh. K�nigl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1840, Phys. Abh.: 93. 1842.
2	Familia  Rapateaceae Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 60, 62. 1829, nom. cons.
3	Familia  Xyridaceae C. Agardh pub. Aphor. Bot. (11): 158. 23 Mai 1823. common name: Yellow-eyed Grasses

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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