Position in a system
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Bikonta - bikonts |
| Corticata | |
| Archaeplastida | |
| kingdom | Plantae Haeckel - plants |
| divisio | Pteridospermatophyta Meyen † |
| class | Pentoxylopsida D.D. Pant ex Doweld † |
| order | Pentoxylales Pilg. et Melchior † |
| family | Pentoxylaceae Pilg. et Melchior † |
| genus | Pentoxylon B. P. Srivastava † |