The Caryophyllaceae, commonly called the pink family or carnation family, are a family of flowering plants. It is included in the dicotyledon order Caryophyllales in the APG III system, alongside 33 other families, including Amaranthaceae, Cactaceae, and Polygonaceae. It is a large family, with 86 genera and some 2,200 species. This cosmopolitan f...
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the pink, or carnation, family of flowering plants (order Caryophyllales), comprising some 86 genera and 2,200 species of herbaceous annuals and ... [1 related articles]
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Caryophyllaceae are a family of plants. They have opposite undivided leaves without stipples, tumid articulations of the stems, and seeds disposed upon a free central placenta, surrounded by several carpellary leaves. The great proportion of the species are inconspicuous weeds, like chick-weed, sandwort, etc, but many are found as favourite plants ...
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n] - large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes)
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family Caryophyllaceae noun large family of herbs or subshrubs (usually with stems swollen at the nodes)
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