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Taxon:
Family
Commelinaceae
Mirb. (1804), nom. cons.
- spiderwort family
(plant)
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Entity:
Commelinales (Order)
..Haemodoraceae (Family) - bloodwort family
..Hanguanaceae (Family)
..Philydraceae (Family) - Philydrum family
..Pontederiaceae (Family) - water-hyacinth family
..Commelinaceae (Family) - spiderwort family
....Aetheolirion (Genus)
....Anthericopsis (Genus)
....Belosynapsis (Genus)
....Buforrestia (Genus)
....Cartonematoideae (Subfamily)
....Cochliostema (Genus)
....Commelinoideae (Subfamily)
....Dictyospermum (Genus)
....Elasis (Genus)
....Forrestia (Genus)
....Geogenanthus (Genus)
....Gibasoides (Genus)
....Matudanthus (Genus)
....Plowmanianthus (Genus)
....Polyspatha (Genus)
....Porandra (Genus)
....Pseudoparis (Genus)
....Rhoeo (Genus)
....Rhopalephora (Genus)
....Sauvallea (Genus)
....Setcreasea (Genus)
....Siderasis (Genus)
....Stanfieldiella (Genus)
....Tapheocarpa (Genus)
....Thyrsanthemum (Genus)
....Tricarpelema (Genus)
....Weldenia (Genus)
....Zebrina (Genus)
Authorship
SN2000 author citation
:
Mirb., 1804, nom. cons.
Original name
:
Mirb., 1804.
Hist. Nat. Pl.
8
: 177.
Subsequent spelling
:
Subsequent publication
:
Brown, R. 1810.
Prodr.
, 27 Mar 1810: 268.
Attributes
Conserved name (nom. cons. [prop.]) [ICBN/ICN, 2012: Art. 14, Rec. 50E.1, App. II-IV]
Ref:
W. Greuter et al. (eds.), 1994.
Int. Code Bot. Nomencl.
(Tokyo Code)
: App. IIB (p. 103: "R. Br.").
Types
Automatically typified subtaxon of
:
Commelinales
(Order)
Mirb.
ex
Bercht. & J.Presl (1820)
Automatically typified subtaxon
:
Commelineae
(Subfamily)
Automatically typified subtaxon
:
Commelinoideae
(Subfamily)
Type
:
Commelina
(Genus)
L. (1753)
Ref:
W. Greuter et al. (eds.), 1994
: App. IIB (p. 103).
Synonyms
Including
:
Cartonemataceae
(Family)
Pichon (1946), nom. cons.
Ref:
A. Takhtajan, 1997
: 541.
Vernacular Names (Dutch)
Full name
:
commelinafamilie
Vernacular Names (English)
Full name
:
spiderwort family
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