caryophylloid dicot genus

1. Genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers (synset 111594111)
   is a type of: dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
   subtypes:

   • agrostemma, genus agrostemma - a caryophylloid dicot genus including corn cockles
   • arenaria, genus arenaria - sandworts
   • cerastium, genus cerastium - mouse-eared chickweed
   • dianthus, genus dianthus - carnations and pinks
   • genus drypis - one species
   • genus gypsophila, gypsophila - Mediterranean herbs having small white or pink flowers
   • genus hernaria, hernaria - low-growing Old World herbs with minute bright green leaves
   • genus illecebrum, illecebrum - one species: coral necklace
   • genus lychnis - genus of plants strongly resembling those of genus Silene: catchfly
   • genus minuartia, minuartia - mostly perennial herbs of northern hemisphere often with mat-forming habit; most often placed in genus Arenaria: sandworts
   • genus moehringia, moehringia - low-growing herbs widely distributed in temperate and Arctic northern hemisphere: sandworts; distinguished from members of the genus Arenaria mainly by having four-petaled rather than five-petaled flowers
   • genus paronychia, paronychia - low-growing annual or perennial herbs or woody plants; whitlowworts
   • genus petrocoptis, petrocoptis - perennial tussock-forming rock plants; of Pyrenees and mountains of northern Spain; similar to and sometimes placed in genus Lychnis
   • genus sagina, sagina - small low-growing annual or perennial herbs of temperate and cool regions
   • genus saponaria, saponaria - mostly perennial Old World herbs
   • genus scleranthus, scleranthus - small genus of Old World weedy prostrate annuals: knawel
   • genus silene - large widely distributed genus of plants having mostly showy flowers of various colors: campion; catchfly
   • genus spergula, spergula - small genus of Old World annual herbs: corn spurry
   • genus spergularia, spergularia - chiefly maritime Eurasian herbs: sand spurry; sea spurry
   • genus vaccaria, vaccaria - cow-cockles
   • carpobrotus, genus carpobrotus - a caryophyllaceous genus of Carpobrotus
   • dorotheanthus, genus dorotheanthus - a caryophyllaceous genus of Dorotheanthus
   • genus lithops - genus of stemless South African succulents
   • genus mesembryanthemum, mesembryanthemum - South African annual or biennial plants having flowers that open only in bright sunlight
   • genus molluga, molluga - carpetweeds
   • genus pleiospilos, pleiospilos - perennial succulents of South Africa
   • genus tetragonia, tetragonia - New Zealand spinach
   • amaranthus, genus amaranthus - large widely distributed genus of chiefly coarse annual herbs
   • alternanthera, genus alternanthera - genus of low herbs of tropical America and Australia; includes genus Telanthera
   • celosia, genus celosia - annual or perennial herbs or vines of tropical and subtropical America and Asia and Africa
   • froelichia, genus froelichia - genus of erect or procumbent herbs of the Americas having spikes of woolly white flowers: cottonweed
   • genus gomphrena, gomphrena - genus of tropical herbs or subshrubs having flowers in close heads; tropical America and Australia
   • genus iresine, iresine - genus of tropical American herbs or subshrubs
   • genus telanthera, telanthera - used in former classifications systems; now included in genus Alternanthera
   • batis, genus batis - small genus of plants constituting the family Batidaceae: low straggling dioecious shrubs
   • chenopodium, genus chenopodium - goosefoot; pigweed
   • atriplex, genus atriplex - orach; saltbush
   • bassia, genus bassia, genus kochia, kochia - summer cypress
   • beta, genus beta - beets
   • cycloloma, genus cycloloma - a caryophyllaceous genus of the family Chenopodiaceae
   • genus halogeton - a caryophyllaceous genus of the family Chenopodiaceae
   • genus salicornia, salicornia - glassworts
   • genus salsola, salsola - chiefly Old World herbs or shrubs: saltworts
   • genus sarcobatus, sarcobatus - one species: greasewood
   • genus spinacia, spinacia - spinach
   • genus nyctaginia, nyctaginia - a caryophyllaceous genus of the family Nyctaginaceae having only one species
   • abronia, genus abronia - genus of western North American herbs having showy flowers
   • allionia, genus allionia - small genus of chiefly American herbs
   • bougainvillaea, genus bougainvillaea, genus bougainvillea - ornamental tropical woody vines
   • genus mirabilis, mirabilis - four o'clocks
   • genus pisonia, pisonia - genus of often thorny tropical trees and shrubs and some vines; mainly America
   • acanthocereus, genus acanthocereus - mostly trailing cacti having nocturnal white flowers; tropical America and Caribbean region
   • aporocactus, genus aporocactus - small genus of epiphytic cacti of Mexico
   • ariocarpus, genus ariocarpus - slow-growing geophytic cacti; northern and eastern Mexico; southern Texas
   • carnegiea, genus carnegiea - caryophylloid dicot genus with only one species: saguaro
   • cereus, genus cereus - genus of much-branched treelike or shrubby cacti with pronounced ribs and rounded needlelike spines and nocturnal flowers usually white
   • genus coryphantha - mainly globose cacti of southwestern United States and Mexico covered with many nodules; superficially resembling and formerly included in genus Mammillaria
   • genus echinocactus - globular or cylindrical cacti; southwestern United States to Brazil
   • echinocereus, genus echinocereus - large genus of low-growing shrubby ribbed cacti of Mexico and southwestern United States
   • genus epiphyllum - small genus of tropical American (mainly Central America) cacti
   • ferocactus, genus ferocactus - genus of nearly globular cacti of Mexico and southwestern United States: barrel cacti
   • genus gymnocalycium, gymnocalycium - large genus of low-growing globular South American cacti with spiny ribs covered with many tubercles
   • genus harrisia, harrisia - genus of slender often treelike spiny cacti with solitary showy nocturnal white or pink flowers; Florida and Caribbean to South America
   • genus hatiora, hatiora - small genus of South American epiphytic or lithophytic cacti
   • genus hylocereus, hylocereus - genus of climbing or epiphytic tropical American cacti with angular stems and mostly white very fragrant flowers
   • genus lemaireocereus, lemaireocereus - tropical American cacti usually tall and branching with stout spines and funnel-shaped flowers and globular or ovoid often edible fruit
   • genus lophophora, lophophora - two species of small cacti of northeastern Mexico and southwestern United States having rounded stems covered with jointed tubercles: mescal
   • genus mammillaria - large genus of cacti characterized chiefly by nipple-shaped protuberances or tubercles on their surface
   • genus melocactus, melocactus - genus of strongly ribbed globose or spheroid cacti of tropical South and Central America and the Caribbean
   • genus myrtillocactus, myrtillocactus - small genus of arborescent cacti of Mexico and Central America
   • genus pediocactus, pediocactus - low-growing cacti of the Great Plains of North America
   • genus opuntia, opuntia - large genus of cactuses native to America: prickly pears
   • genus peireskia, genus pereskia, peireskia, pereskia - genus of tropical American shrubby trees and woody climbers having slender branches with broad flat leaves and large panicles of flowers
   • genus rhipsalis, rhipsalis - large genus of epiphytic or lithophytic unarmed cacti with usually segmented stems and pendulous branches; flowers are small followed by berrylike fruits
   • genus schlumbergera, schlumbergera - South American epiphytic or lithophytic cacti
   • genus selenicereus, selenicereus - mostly epiphytic climbing cacti that bloom at night
   • genus zygocactus, zygocactus - small genus of Brazilian cacti having flat fleshy usually branched joints and showy red or pink flowers followed by red fleshy fruits
   • genus phytolacca, phytolacca - type genus of Phytolaccaceae: pokeweed
   • agdestis, genus agdestis - a genus with one species that is a rapidly growing climbing vine with tuberous roots; grown in hot climates
   • ercilla, genus ercilla - a genus of evergreen climbers
   • genus rivina, rivina - small genus of erect perennial shrubby herbs; tropical and subtropical America
   • genus trichostigma, trichostigma - a genus of erect or climbing shrubs found in tropical South America
   • genus portulaca - genus of mainly tropical fleshy or trailing herbs
   • calandrinia, genus calandrinia - large genus of low-growing herbs; widespread throughout tropical and warm temperate regions having usually basal leaves and panicles of purplish ephemeral flowers
   • claytonia, genus claytonia - genus of mainly North American succulent herbs with white or pink flowers usually in terminal racemes
   • genus lewisia, lewisia - genus of western North American low-growing herbs having linear woolly leaves and large pink flowers
   • genus montia, montia - small genus of densely tufted annual herbs; north temperate regions and South America and tropical Africa and Asia
   • genus spraguea, spraguea - small genus of usually perennial herbs having deep woody taproots and flower heads of umbels or cymes
   • genus talinum, talinum - genus of mainly American more-or-less succulent herbs
   belongs to: 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); contains 14 families including: Caryophyllaceae (carnations and pinks); Aizoaceae; Amaranthaceae; Batidaceae; Chenopodiaceae; Cactaceae (order Opuntiales); Nyctaginaceae; Phytolaccaceae; corresponds approximately to order Caryophyllales; sometimes classified as a superorder

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