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Vernacular names of plants within the Suborder Orchidineae

Hierarchical position of the Suborder Orchidineae

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.

Named members of the Suborder Orchidineae

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Familia  Orchidaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 64. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Orchids

2    Subfamilia  Apostasioideae Horan. pub. Char. Ess. Fam.: 46. 1847. 3    Subfamilia  Arethusoideae Kostel. pub. Allg. Med.-Pharm. Fl. 1: 233. Mai 1831. 4    Familia  Boryaceae M.W. Chase, Rudall & Conran pub. 1997   5    Subfamilia  Cypripedioideae Kostel. pub. Allg. Med.-Pharm. Fl.: 233. Mai 1831.    6    Subfamilia  Epidendroideae Kostel. pub. Allg. Med.-Pharm. Fl. 1: 233. Mai 1831.    7    Subfamilia  Epipogonoideae Leurss. pub. Handb. Syst. Bot. 2: 477. Jan 1880. 8    Subfamilia  Gastrodioideae Kostel. pub. Allg. Med.-Pharm. Fl. 1: 233. Mai 1831.    9    Subfamilia  Limodoroideae Burnett pub. Outl. Bot.: 461. Jun 1835. 10    Subfamilia  Liparidoideae Luerss. pub. Grundz. Bot., ed. 5: 471. Jun 1893. 11    Subfamilia  Malaxidoideae Burnett pub. Outl. Bot.: 461. Jun 1835. 12    Subfamilia  Neottioideae Kostel. pub. Allg. Med.-Pharm. Fl. 1: 233. Mai 1831. 13    Subfamilia  Ophrydoideae Kostel. pub. Allg. Med.-Pharm. Fl. 1: 233. Mai 1831. 14    Subfamilia  Orchidoideae Eaton pub. Bot. Dict., ed. 4: 29. Apr-Mai 1836.    15    Subfamilia  Vandoideae Endl. pub. Ench. Bot.: 110. 15-21 Aug 1841.

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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