English > Caryophyllidae: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | A group of families of mostly flowers having basal or central placentation and trinucleate pollen (binucleate pollen is commoner in flowering plants); contains 14 families including: Caryophyllaceae (carnations and pinks); Aizoaceae; Amaranthaceae; Batidaceae; Chenopodiaceae; Cactaceae (order Opuntiales); Nyctaginaceae; Phytolaccaceae; corresponds approximately to order Caryophyllales; sometimes classified as a superorder. |
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| Synonym | subclass Caryophyllidae |
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| Member of | Dicotyledones, class Dicotyledones, Dicotyledonae, class Dicotyledonae, Magnoliopsida, class Magnoliopsida | Comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with paired cotyledons and net-veined leaves |
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| Members | Caryophyllales, order Caryophyllales, Chenopodiales, order-Chenopodiales | corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae |
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| Opuntiales, order Opuntiales | coextensive with the family Cactaceae |
| caryophylloid dicot family | family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers |
| caryophylloid dicot genus | genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers |
| Broader | class | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders |
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