Ranunculanae
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Vernacular names of plants within the Superorder Ranunculanae

American umbrella leaf
achlys
adlumia
akebia fruit
barberries
barberry
bearpoppy
buttercups
calycocarpum
chocolate vine
chondrodendron
cohosh
cupseed
dioscoreophyllum
epimedium
fairypoppy
fibraurea
five-leaf akebia
hornpoppy
insideout flower
jateorhiza
jeffersonia
lardizabalas
macleaya
moonseeds
nandina
papoose root
pareira
peonys
poppies
poppy
pseudofumaria
roemeria
serendipity berry
squaw root
stylophorum
twinleaf
umbrellaleaf
windpoppy

Hierarchical position of the Superorder Ranunculanae

   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  Ranunculopsida Brongn.
pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xxvi, 96. 12 Aug 1843.
  
   Subclassis  Ranunculidae Takht. ex Reveal
pub. Novon 2: 235. 1992.
  
   SuperOrdo  Ranunculanae Takht. ex Reveal
pub. Novon 2: 236. 1992.
  

Named members of the Superorder Ranunculanae

1
   Ordo  Berberidales Dumort.
pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 44. 1829.
  
 
2
   Familia  Berberidaceae Juss.
pub. Gen. Pl.: 286. 4 Aug 1789.
common name: Barberries
  
3
   Familia  Leonticaceae Bercht. & J. Presl
pub. Prir. Rostlin: 217. 1820.
  
4
   Familia  Nandinaceae Horan.
pub. Prim. Lin. Syst. Nat.: 90. Jul-Dec 1834.
  
5
   Familia  Podophyllaceae DC.
pub. Syst. Nat. 2: 31. Mai 1821.
  
6
   Familia  Ranzaniaceae (Kumaz. & Terabayashi) Takht.
pub. Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 79(1): 96. Jan 1994.
7
   Ordo  Circaeasterales Takht.
pub. Divers. Classif. Fl. Pl.: 97. 1 Mai 1997.
 
8
   Familia  Circaeasteraceae Hutch.
pub. Fam. Fl. Pl. 1: 98. Feb-Mar 1926, nom. cons.
9
   Familia  Kingdoniaceae A.S. Foster ex Airy Shaw
pub. Kew Bull. 18: 262. 8 Dec 1964.
10
   Ordo  Glaucidiales Takht. ex Reveal
pub. Novon 2: 238. 13 Oct 1992.
 
11
   Familia  Glaucidiaceae Tamura
pub. Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 85: 40. Mar 1972.
12
   Ordo  Lardizabales Loconte in D.W. Taylor & L.J. Hickey
pub. Fl. Pl. Orig. Evol. & Phylog.: 274. 21 Dec 1995.
  
 
13
   Familia  Decaisneaceae (Takht. ex Quin) Loconte in Loconte
pub. L.M. Campbell & D.W. Stev., Pl. Syst. Evol. 9: 105. Dec 1995
14
   Familia  Lardizabalaceae Decne.
pub. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. 1: 185. 1839.
common name: Lardizabalas
  
15
   Familia  Sargentodoxaceae Stapf ex Hutch.
pub. Fam. Fl. Pl. 1: 100. Feb-Mar 1926.
16
   Ordo  Menispermales Bromhead
pub. Edinburgh New Philos. J. 25: 132. Jul 1838.
  
 
17
   Familia  Menispermaceae Juss.
pub. Gen. Pl.: 284. 4 Aug 1789.
common name: Moonseeds
  
18
   Ordo  Paeoniales Heintze
pub. Cormofyt. Fylog.: 12, 97. 1927.
  
 
19
   Familia  Paeoniaceae (DC.) F. Rudolphi
pub. Syst. Orb. Veg.: 61. 1830, nom. cons.
common name: Peonys
  
20
   Ordo  Papaverales Dumort.
pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 44. 1829.
  
 
21
   Familia  Papaveraceae Juss.
pub. Gen. Pl.: 235. 4 Aug 1789, nom. cons.
common name: Poppies
  
22
   Familia  Pteridophyllaceae (Murb.) Nakai ex Reveal & Hoogland
pub. Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., ser. 4, sect. B Adansonia, 13:
23
   Ordo  Ranunculales Dumort.
pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 44. 1829.
  
 
24
   Familia  Hydrastidaceae Martynov
pub. Tekhno-Bot. Slovar: 318. 1820.
  
25
   Subordo  Ranunculineae Bessey in C.K. Adams
pub. Johnson's Universal Cyclop. 8: 460. 1 Nov 1895.
  
 
26
   Familia  Ranunculaceae Juss.
pub. Gen. Pl.: 231. 4 Aug 1789, nom. cons.
common name: Buttercups
  

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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