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- Instance of
- infraspecific name
- Part of
- subspecies
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- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- short name
- var.
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The hierarchy of biological classification's eight major taxonomic ranks. Intermediate minor rankings are not shown.
In botanical nomenclature, variety (abbreviated var.; in Latin: varietas) is a taxonomic rank below that of species and subspecies, but above that of form. As such, it gets a three-part infraspecific name. It is sometimes recommended that the subspecies rank should be used to recognize geographic distinctiveness, whereas the variety rank is appropriate if the taxon is seen throughout the geographic range of the species.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “variety” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.