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Vernacular names of plants within the Tribe Malaxideae

Hierarchical position of the Tribe Malaxideae

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.       Familia  Orchidaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 64. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Orchids       Subfamilia  Malaxidoideae Burnett pub. Outl. Bot.: 461. Jun 1835.    Tribus  Malaxideae Lindl. pub. Collect. Bot. 8: 7. Jan 1826.

Named members of the Tribe Malaxideae

1	Subtribus  Malaxidinae Benth. & Hook.f. pub. Gen. Pl. 3: 463, 465. 14 Apr 1883.
	2    Genus  Malaxis Sol. ex Sw. pub. (1788) common name: adder's-mouth orchid

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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