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Vernacular names of plants within the Superorder Gentiananae

Hierarchical position of the Superorder Gentiananae

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  Gentiananae Thorne ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 236. 1992.

Named members of the Superorder Gentiananae

1	Ordo  Apocynales Bromhead pub. 1838
	2    Familia  Apocynaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 143. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Dogbanes
3	Ordo  Gentianales Lindl. pub. Nix. Pl.: 19. 17 Sep 1833.
	4    Familia  Gelsemiaceae (G. Don) Struwe & V. Albert pub. Cladistics 10: 206. 1995.    5    Familia  Geniostomaceae Struwe & V. Albert pub. Cladistics 10: 206. 1995. 6    Subordo  Gentianineae Bessey in C.K. Adams pub. Johnson's Universal Cyclop. 8: 463. 15 Nov 1895.      7    Familia  Gentianaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 141. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Gentians    8    Familia  Saccifoliaceae Maguire & Pires pub. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 29: 242. 14 Jun 1978. 9    Familia  Loganiaceae R. Br. ex Mart. pub. Nov. Gen. Sp. Pl. 2: 133. Jan-Jun 1827. common name: Loganias 10    Familia  Plocospermataceae Hutch. pub. Fam. Fl. Pl., ed. 3: 469. Jan-Jul 1973. 11    Familia  Strychnaceae DC. ex Perleb pub. Vers. Artzneikr. Pfl.: 244. Mai 1818.
12	Ordo  Rubiales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 29. 1829.
	13    Subordo  Rubiineae Raf. pub. Ann. G�n. Sci. Phys. Bruxelles 6: 83. 1820.      14    Familia  Carlemanniaceae Airy Shaw pub. Kew Bull. 19: 511. 26 Jul 1965. 15    Familia  Dialypetalanthaceae Rizzini & Occhioni pub. Lilloa 17: 253. 30 Dec 1948, nom. cons. 16    Familia  Rubiaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 196. 4 Aug 1789, nom. cons. common name: Madders

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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