Meaning | A group of mostly sympetalous herbs and some trees and shrubs mostly with 2 fused carpels; contains 43 families including Campanulales; Solanaceae; Scrophulariaceae; Labiatae; Verbenaceae; Rubiaceae; Compositae; sometimes classified as a superorder. |
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Synonym | Asteridae |
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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 | Campanulales, order Campanulales | An order of plants of the subclass Asteridae including |
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Polemoniales, order Polemoniales | Polemoniaceae |
Rubiales, order Rubiales | An order of dicotyledonous plants of the subclass Asteridae |
asterid dicot family | family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs |
asterid dicot genus | genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs |
Broader | class | (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders |
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