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Life → Domain → Kingdom → Phylum → Class → Order → Family → Genus → Species. Explore the principal ranks; intermediate clades remain in Advanced classification.
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NCBI Taxonomy · November 5, 2026. Missing ranks leave empty columns. Animalia is the recorded synonym of Metazoa; green plants use Viridiplantae. Full source ancestry is available in Advanced classification.
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Classification list
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Selected taxon
Adansonia digitata
Species
African Baobab
- LifeLife
- DomainEukaryota
- KingdomViridiplantae
- PhylumStreptophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderMalvales
- FamilyMalvaceae
- GenusAdansonia
- SpeciesAdansonia digitata
Advanced classification
Complete source lineage, including intermediate ranks. The standard view uses Life and the eight principal ranks.
- cellular organisms cellular root
- Eukaryota domain
- Viridiplantae kingdom
- Streptophyta phylum
- Streptophytina subphylum
- Embryophyta clade
- Tracheophyta clade
- Euphyllophyta clade
- Spermatophyta clade
- Magnoliopsida class
- Mesangiospermae clade
- eudicotyledons clade
- Gunneridae clade
- Pentapetalae clade
- rosids clade
- malvids clade
- Malvales order
- Malvaceae family
- Bombacoideae subfamily
- Adansonia genus
- Adansonia digitata species