English > family Portulacaceae: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | family of usually succulent herbs; cosmopolitan in distribution especially in Americas. |
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| Synonyms | Portulacaceae, purslane family |
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| Member of | Caryophyllales, order Caryophyllales, Chenopodiales, order-Chenopodiales | corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae |
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| Members | Calandrinia, genus Calandrinia | large genus of low-growing herbs |
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| Claytonia, genus Claytonia | genus of mainly North American succulent herbs with white or pink flowers usually in terminal racemes |
| Lewisia, genus Lewisia | genus of western North American low-growing herbs having linear woolly leaves and large pink flowers |
| Montia, genus Montia | small genus of densely tufted annual herbs |
| 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 |
| genus Portulaca | genus of mainly tropical fleshy or trailing herbs |
| Broader | caryophylloid dicot family | family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers |
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| Spanish | portulacáceas |
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| Catalan | Portulacaceae, portulacàcia, portulacàcies |
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