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Vernacular names of plants within the Subfamily Cypripedioideae

Hierarchical position of the Subfamily Cypripedioideae

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  Orchidales Raf. pub. Anal. Nat.: 197. Apr-Jul 1815.       Subordo  Orchidineae Rchb. pub. Deut. Bot. Herb.-Buch: xxxviii. Jul 1841.       Familia  Orchidaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 64. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Orchids       Subfamilia  Cypripedioideae Kostel. pub. Allg. Med.-Pharm. Fl.: 233. Mai 1831.

Named members of the Subfamily Cypripedioideae

1	Tribus  Cypripedieae Lindl. pub. Orchid. Select.: 7, 18. Jan 1826.
	2    Subtribus  Cypripediinae (Lindl.) Meisn. pub. Pl. Vasc. Gen.: Comm. 289. 17-20 Aug 1842.      3    Genus  Cypripedium L. pub. (1753) common name: lady's slipper

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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