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 | Magnoliophyta Cronquist, Takht. & W.Zimm. - flowering plants |
| class | Rosopsida Batsch - eudicots |
| order | Malpighiales Martius |
| family | Salicaceae Mirbel |
| tribus | Flacourtieae DC. |
| genus | Flacourtia Comm. ex L'Hér. - flacourtia |
| species | Flacourtia tomentella Miq. |