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Hoodia  Sweet
Taxonomic Serial No.: 893795

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Plantae  
  Taxonomic Rank: Genus  
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  Current Standing: accepted  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: partial   
  Latest Record Review: 2011   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomPlantae  – plantes, Planta, Vegetal, plants  
    SubkingdomViridiplantae  – green plants  
       InfrakingdomStreptophyta  – land plants  
          SuperdivisionEmbryophyta   
             DivisionTracheophyta  – vascular plants, tracheophytes  
                SubdivisionSpermatophytina  – spermatophytes, seed plants, phanérogames  
                   ClassMagnoliopsida   
                      SuperorderAsteranae   
                         OrderGentianales   
                            FamilyApocynaceae  – dogbane, apocyns  
                               GenusHoodia Sweet  
    Direct Children:  
                                  Species Hoodia alstonii (N.E. Br.) Plowes  
                                  Species Hoodia currorii (Hook.) Decne.  
                                  Species Hoodia dregei N.E. Br.  
                                  Species Hoodia flava (N.E. Br.) Plowes  
                                  Species Hoodia gordonii (Masson) Sweet ex Decne.  
                                  Species Hoodia juttae Dinter  
                                  Species Hoodia longispina Plowes  
                                  Species Hoodia officinalis (N.E. Br.) Plowes  
                                  Species Hoodia parviflora N.E. Br.  
                                  Species Hoodia pedicellata (Schinz) Plowes  
                                  Species Hoodia pilifera (L. f.) Plowes  
                                  Species Hoodia ruschii Dinter  
                                  Species Hoodia triebneri (Nel) Bruyns  
       

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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Albers, Focke, and Ulrich Meve, eds.  
  Publication Date: 2002   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Illustrated handbook of succulent plants: Asclepiadaceae   
  Page(s): 318+XLVIII   
  Publisher: Springer   
  Publication Place: Berlin, Germany   
  ISBN/ISSN: 3-540-41964-0   
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  Reference for: Hoodia   
       

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