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Vernacular names of plants within the Subfamily Gesnerioideae

Hierarchical position of the Subfamily Gesnerioideae

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  Lamiidae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 74: 178. 25 Mar 1993.       SuperOrdo  Lamianae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 405. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Lamiales Bromhead pub. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 2, 2: 210. Apr 1838.       Familia  Gesneriaceae Dumort. pub. Comment. Bot.: 57. Nov-Dec 1822. common name: Gesnerias    Subfamilia  Gesnerioideae Link pub. Handbuch 1: 505. Jan-Aug 1829.

Named members of the Subfamily Gesnerioideae

1	Tribus  Gesnerieae Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 30. 1829.
	2    Subtribus  Gesneriinae J. Hanst. pub. Linnaea 26: 198, 199. Apr 1854.   3    Genus  Gesneria L. pub. (1753) common name: gesneria

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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