Ericanae
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Vernacular names of plants within the Superorder Ericanae

Florida hobblebush
Oconee bells
actinidia
brittleleaf
buckwheat tree
clethras
cliftonia
coneplant
doghobble
elliottia
fetterbush
galaxy
harrimanella
heathers
heaths
honeycup
huckleberry
kalmiopsis
kiwi
laurel
leatherleaf
littleleaf pixiemoss
loiseleuria
manzanita
mountain heather
ocotillos
ornithostaphylos
orthilia
pinefoot
prince's pine
pygmypipes
pyxidanthera
shortia
single delight
snowplant
staggerbush
sugarstick
summer holly
swamp cranberry
sweet pepperbush
symphysia
trailing arbutus

Hierarchical position of the Superorder Ericanae

   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  Ericanae Takht.
pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 221. Jan-Mar 1967.
  

Named members of the Superorder Ericanae

1
   Ordo  Actinidiales Takht. ex Reveal
pub. Phytologia 74: 174. 25 Mar 1993.
  
 
2
   Familia  Actinidiaceae Hutch.
pub. Fam. Fl. Pl. 1: 177. Feb-Mar 1926, nom. cons.
common name: kiwi
  
3
   Ordo  Bruniales Dumort.
pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 33. 1829.
 
4
   Familia  Bruniaceae R. Br. ex DC.
pub. Prodr. 2: 43. Nov 1825, nom. cons.
5
   Familia  Grubbiaceae Endl.
pub. Gen. Pl.: xiv. Jan 1839, nom. cons.
6
   Ordo  Diapensiales Engl. & Gilg
pub. Engler's Syllabus, ed. 9-10: 314. Nov-Dec 1924.
  
 
7
   Familia  Diapensiaceae (Link) Lindl.
pub. Intr. Nat. Syst. Bot., ed. 2: 233. Jul 1836, nom. cons.
  
8
   Ordo  Ericales Dumort.
pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 28. 1829.
  
 
9
   Subordo  Ericineae Burnett
pub. Outl. Bot.: 901, 937, 938, 1108. Jun 1835.
  
 
10
   Familia  Clethraceae Klotzsch
pub. Linnaea 24: 12. Mai 1851, nom. cons.
common name: Clethras
  
11
   Familia  Cyrillaceae Endl.
pub. Ench. Bot.: 578. 15-21 Aug 1841.
  
12
   Familia  Ericaceae Juss.
pub. Gen. Pl.: 159. 4 Aug 1789.
common name: Heaths, Heathers
  
13
   Familia  Oxycoccaceae A. Kern.
pub. Pflanzenleben 2: 713, 714. 1891.
14
   Ordo  Fouquieriales Takht. ex Reveal
pub. Novon 2: 238. 13 Oct 1992.
  
 
15
   Subordo  Fouquierineae Engl.
pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 153. Mai 1898.
  
 
16
   Familia  Fouquieriaceae DC.
pub. Prodr. 3: 349. Mar 1828.
common name: Ocotillos
  
17
   Ordo  Geissolomatales Takht. ex Reveal
pub. Novon 2: 238. 13 Oct 1992.
 
18
   Familia  Geissolomataceae Endl.
pub. Ench. Bot.: 214. 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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