BETULACEAE
(birches, hazels, hornbeams and alders)

Subtaxon	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Alnus alders	Genus	3 subtaxa	81 images	2 ident. refs
Betula birches	Genus	5 subtaxa	45 images	2 ident. refs
Carpinus betulus Hornbeam	Species		42 images
Corylus hazels	Genus	2 subtaxa	66 images	2 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	BETULACEAE (birches, hazels, hornbeams and alders)
Order	FAGALES (forest trees)
Subclass	EU-DICOTS (dicotyledonous flowering plants)
Class	MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants)
Phylum	TRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
Kingdom	PLANTAE (plants)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

BETULACEAE (birches, hazels, hornbeams and alders) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

FAGALES
(forest trees)

MAGNOLIOPSIDA
(flowering plants)

TRACHEOPHYTA
(vascular plants)

PLANTAE
(plants)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Broadleaved trees
(broadleaved, frondose or deciduous trees)

Trees
(broadleaved and coniferous trees)

Trees and shrubs
(trees and shrubs, including conifers)

Trees, shrubs, woody and climbing plants
(trees, shrubs, subshrubs and climbers, including conifers)

Xylophytes
(broadleaved trees, shrubs and woody climbers)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for BETULACEAE (birches, hazels, hornbeams and alders)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 2,406 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for BETULACEAE (birches, hazels, hornbeams and alders)

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BETULACEAE
(birches, hazels, hornbeams and alders)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

BETULACEAE is also a member of:

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