
1) Acanthus family 2) Asterid dicot family 3) Family acanthaceae
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Plants in this family have simple, opposite, decussated leaves with entire (or sometimes toothed, lobed, or spiny) margins, and without stipules. The leaves may contain cystoliths, calcium carbonate concretions, seen as streaks on the surface. The flowers are perfect, zygomorphic to nearly actinomorphic, and arranged in an inflorescence that is ei...
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one of 23 families in the mint order of flowering plants (Lamiales), containing approximately 230 genera and nearly 3,500 species distributed ...
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The Acanthaceae are a family of dicotyledonous herbaceous plants or shrubs with opposite leaves and mono-petalous corolla. There are around 1400 species, mostly tropical.
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[
n] - widely distributed herbs and shrubs and trees
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family Acanthaceae noun widely distributed herbs and shrubs and trees; sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales
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