English > caryophylloid dicot genus: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers. |
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| Member of | Caryophyllidae, subclass Caryophyllidae | A group of families of mostly flowers having basal or central placentation and trinucleate pollen (binucleate pollen is commoner in flowering plants) |
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| Narrower | Abronia, genus Abronia | genus of western North American herbs having showy flowers |
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| Acanthocereus, genus Acanthocereus | Mostly trailing cacti having nocturnal white flowers |
| Agdestis, genus Agdestis | A genus with one species that is a rapidly growing climbing vine with tuberous roots |
| Agrostemma, genus Agrostemma | A caryophylloid dicot genus including corn cockles |
| Allionia, genus Allionia | small genus of chiefly American herbs |
| Alternanthera, genus Alternanthera | genus of low herbs of tropical America and Australia |
| Amaranthus, genus Amaranthus | large widely distributed genus of chiefly coarse annual herbs |
| Aporocactus, genus Aporocactus | small genus of epiphytic cacti of Mexico |
| Arenaria, genus Arenaria | sandworts / sandworts / sandworts |
| Ariocarpus, genus Ariocarpus | Slow-growing geophytic cacti |
| Atriplex, genus Atriplex | orach |
| Bassia, genus Bassia, Kochia, genus Kochia | summer cypress |
| Batis, genus Batis | small genus of plants constituting the family Batidaceae |
| Beta, genus Beta | beets |
| Calandrinia, genus Calandrinia | large genus of low-growing herbs |
| Carnegiea, genus Carnegiea | caryophylloid dicot genus with only one species |
| Carpobrotus, genus Carpobrotus | A caryophyllaceous genus of Carpobrotus |
| Celosia, genus Celosia | annual or perennial herbs or vines of tropical and subtropical America and Asia and Africa |
| Cerastium, genus Cerastium | mouse-eared chickweed |
| Cereus, genus Cereus | genus of much-branched treelike or shrubby cacti with pronounced ribs and rounded needlelike spines and nocturnal flowers usually white |
| Chenopodium, genus Chenopodium | goosefoot |
| Claytonia, genus Claytonia | genus of mainly North American succulent herbs with white or pink flowers usually in terminal racemes |
| Cycloloma, genus Cycloloma | A caryophyllaceous genus of the family Chenopodiaceae |
| Dianthus, genus Dianthus | carnations and pinks |
| Dorotheanthus, genus Dorotheanthus | A caryophyllaceous genus of Dorotheanthus |
| Echinocereus, genus Echinocereus | large genus of low-growing shrubby ribbed cacti of Mexico and southwestern United States |
| Ercilla, genus Ercilla | A genus of evergreen climbers |
| Ferocactus, genus Ferocactus | genus of nearly globular cacti of Mexico and southwestern United States |
| Froelichia, genus Froelichia | genus of erect or procumbent herbs of the Americas having spikes of woolly white flowers |
| Gomphrena, genus Gomphrena | genus of tropical herbs or subshrubs having flowers in close heads |
| Gymnocalycium, genus Gymnocalycium | large genus of low-growing globular South American cacti with spiny ribs covered with many tubercles |
| Gypsophila, genus Gypsophila | Mediterranean herbs having small white or pink flowers |
| Harrisia, genus Harrisia | genus of slender often treelike spiny cacti with solitary showy nocturnal white or pink flowers |
| Hatiora, genus Hatiora | small genus of South American epiphytic or lithophytic cacti |
| Hernaria, genus Hernaria | low-growing Old World herbs with minute bright green leaves |
| Hylocereus, genus Hylocereus | genus of climbing or epiphytic tropical American cacti with angular stems and mostly white very fragrant flowers |
| Illecebrum, genus Illecebrum | One species |
| Iresine, genus Iresine | genus of tropical American herbs or subshrubs |
| Lemaireocereus, genus Lemaireocereus | Tropical American cacti usually tall and branching with stout spines and funnel-shaped flowers and globular or ovoid often edible fruit |
| Lewisia, genus Lewisia | genus of western North American low-growing herbs having linear woolly leaves and large pink flowers |
| Lophophora, genus Lophophora | Two species of small cacti of northeastern Mexico and southwestern United States having rounded stems covered with jointed tubercles |
| Melocactus, genus Melocactus | genus of strongly ribbed globose or spheroid cacti of tropical South and Central America and the Caribbean |
| Mesembryanthemum, genus Mesembryanthemum | South African annual or biennial plants having flowers that open only in bright sunlight |
| Minuartia, genus Minuartia | Mostly perennial herbs of northern hemisphere often with mat-forming habit |
| Mirabilis, genus Mirabilis | four o'clocks |
| Moehringia, genus Moehringia | low-growing herbs widely distributed in temperate and Arctic northern hemisphere |
| Molluga, genus Molluga | carpetweeds |
| Montia, genus Montia | small genus of densely tufted annual herbs |
| Myrtillocactus, genus Myrtillocactus | small genus of arborescent cacti of Mexico and Central America |
| Nyctaginia, genus Nyctaginia | A caryophyllaceous genus of the family Nyctaginaceae having only one species |
| Opuntia, genus Opuntia | large genus of cactuses native to America |
| Paronychia, genus Paronychia | low-growing annual or perennial herbs or woody plants |
| Pediocactus, genus Pediocactus | low-growing cacti of the Great Plains of North America |
| Pereskia, genus Pereskia, Peireskia, genus Peireskia | genus of tropical American shrubby trees and woody climbers having slender branches with broad flat leaves and large panicles of flowers |
| Petrocoptis, genus Petrocoptis | perennial tussock-forming rock plants |
| Phytolacca, genus Phytolacca | type genus of Phytolaccaceae |
| Pisonia, genus Pisonia | genus of often thorny tropical trees and shrubs and some vines |
| Pleiospilos, genus Pleiospilos | perennial succulents of South Africa |
| Rhipsalis, genus Rhipsalis | large genus of epiphytic or lithophytic unarmed cacti with usually segmented stems and pendulous branches |
| Rivina, genus Rivina | small genus of erect perennial shrubby herbs |
| Sagina, genus Sagina | small low-growing annual or perennial herbs of temperate and cool regions |
| Salicornia, genus Salicornia | glassworts |
| Salsola, genus Salsola | chiefly Old World herbs or shrubs |
| Saponaria, genus Saponaria | Mostly perennial Old World herbs |
| Sarcobatus, genus Sarcobatus | One species |
| Schlumbergera, genus Schlumbergera | South American epiphytic or lithophytic cacti |
| Scleranthus, genus Scleranthus | small genus of Old World weedy prostrate annuals |
| Selenicereus, genus Selenicereus | Mostly epiphytic climbing cacti that bloom at night |
| Spergula, genus Spergula | small genus of Old World annual herbs |
| Spergularia, genus Spergularia | chiefly maritime Eurasian herbs |
| Spinacia, genus Spinacia | spinach |
| Spraguea, genus Spraguea | small genus of usually perennial herbs having deep woody taproots and flower heads of umbels or cymes |
| Talinum, genus Talinum | genus of mainly American more-or-less succulent herbs |
| Telanthera, genus Telanthera | Used in former classifications systems |
| Tetragonia, genus Tetragonia | New Zealand spinach |
| Trichostigma, genus Trichostigma | A genus of erect or climbing shrubs found in tropical South America |
| Vaccaria, genus Vaccaria | Cow-cockles |
| Zygocactus, genus Zygocactus | small genus of Brazilian cacti having flat fleshy usually branched joints and showy red or pink flowers followed by red fleshy fruits |
| genus Bougainvillea, Bougainvillaea, genus Bougainvillaea | Ornamental tropical woody vines |
| genus Coryphantha | mainly globose cacti of southwestern United States and Mexico covered with many nodules |
| genus Drypis | One species |
| genus Echinocactus | globular or cylindrical cacti |
| genus Epiphyllum | small genus of tropical American (mainly Central America) cacti |
| genus Halogeton | A caryophyllaceous genus of the family Chenopodiaceae |
| genus Lithops | genus of stemless South African succulents |
| genus Lychnis | genus of plants strongly resembling those of genus Silene |
| genus Mammillaria | large genus of cacti characterized chiefly by nipple-shaped protuberances or tubercles on their surface |
| genus Portulaca | genus of mainly tropical fleshy or trailing herbs |
| genus Silene | large widely distributed genus of plants having mostly showy flowers of various colors |
| Broader | dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
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