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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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Zea

Genus

  1. LifeLife
  2. DomainEukaryota
  3. KingdomViridiplantae
  4. PhylumStreptophyta
  5. ClassMagnoliopsida
  6. OrderPoales
  7. FamilyPoaceae
  8. GenusZea
Advanced classification

Complete source lineage, including intermediate ranks. The standard view uses Life and the eight principal ranks.

  1. cellular organisms cellular root
  2. Eukaryota domain
  3. Viridiplantae kingdom
  4. Streptophyta phylum
  5. Streptophytina subphylum
  6. Embryophyta clade
  7. Tracheophyta clade
  8. Euphyllophyta clade
  9. Spermatophyta clade
  10. Magnoliopsida class
  11. Mesangiospermae clade
  12. Liliopsida clade
  13. Petrosaviidae subclass
  14. commelinids clade
  15. Poales order
  16. Poaceae family
  17. PACMAD clade clade
  18. Panicoideae subfamily
  19. Andropogonodae no rank
  20. Andropogoneae tribe
  21. Tripsacinae subtribe
  22. Zea genus

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