dilleniid dicot family
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Family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs (synset 111585836)
is a type of: dicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germinationsubtypes:
- caper family, capparidaceae, family capparidaceae - a dilleniid dicot family of the order Rhoeadales that includes: genera Capparis, Cleome, Crateva, and Polanisia
- brassicaceae, cruciferae, family brassicaceae, family cruciferae, mustard family - a large family of plants with four-petaled flowers; includes mustards, cabbages, broccoli, turnips, cresses, and their many relatives
- family papaveraceae, papaveraceae, poppy family - herbs or shrubs having milky and often colored juices and capsular fruits
- family fumariaceae, fumariaceae, fumitory family - erect or climbing herbs of the northern hemisphere and southern Africa: bleeding heart; Dutchman's breeches; fumitory; squirrel corn
- family loasaceae, loasa family, loasaceae - family of bristly hairy sometimes climbing plants; America and Africa and southern Arabia
- family malvaceae, mallow family, malvaceae - herbs and shrubs and some trees: mallows; cotton; okra
- bombacaceae, family bombacaceae - tropical trees with large dry or fleshy fruit containing usually woolly seeds
- elaeocarpaceae, elaeocarpus family, family elaeocarpaceae - genus of trees and shrubs widely distributed in warm regions some yielding useful timber; in some classifications included in the family Santalaceae
- family sterculiaceae, sterculia family, sterculiaceae - a large family of plants of order Malvales
- family tiliaceae, linden family, tiliaceae - chiefly trees and shrubs of tropical and temperate regions of especially southeastern Asia and Brazil; genera Tilia, Corchorus, Entelea, Grewia, Sparmannia
- ericaceae, family ericaceae, heath family - heathers
- clethraceae, family clethraceae, white-alder family - coextensive with the genus Clethra
- diapensia family, diapensiaceae, family diapensiaceae - north temperate low evergreen plants; in some classifications placed in its own order Diapensiales
- epacridaceae, epacris family, family epacridaceae - Australasian shrubs or small trees
- family lennoaceae, lennoaceae - family of fleshy parasitic herbs lacking green foliage and having heads of small flowers; California and Mexico
- family pyrolaceae, pyrolaceae, wintergreen family - evergreen herbs of temperate regions: genera Pyrola, Chimaphila, Moneses, Orthilia
- family monotropaceae, monotropaceae - used in some classification for saprophytic herbs sometimes included in the family Pyrolaceae: genera Monotropa and Sarcodes
- begonia family, begoniaceae, family begoniaceae - monoecious succulent herbs or shrubs of tropical and warm regions especially America
- dilleniaceae, family dilleniaceae - chiefly tropical shrubs and trees and climbers having leathery leaves or flattened leaflike stems: genera Dillenia and Hibbertia
- clusiaceae, family clusiaceae, family guttiferae, guttiferae, st john's wort family - widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber
- family hypericaceae, hypericaceae - used in some classification systems for plants usually included among the Guttiferae
- actinidiaceae, family actinidiaceae - tropical trees or shrubs or woody vines
- canella family, canellaceae, family canellaceae - one genus: aromatic tropical trees of eastern Africa and Florida to West Indies
- caricaceae, family caricaceae, papaya family - trees native to tropical America and Africa with milky juice and large palmately lobed leaves
- caryocaraceae, family caryocaraceae - small genus of tropical South American trees
- cistaceae, family cistaceae, rockrose family - shrubs or woody herbs of temperate regions especially Mediterranean
- dipterocarpaceae, family dipterocarpaceae - chiefly tropical Asian trees with two-winged fruits; yield valuable woods and aromatic oils and resins
- family flacourtiaceae, flacourtia family, flacourtiaceae - chiefly tropical trees and shrubs
- family fouquieriaceae, fouquieriaceae - small family of spiny shrubs or trees of southwestern United States
- family ochnaceae, ochna family, ochnaceae - family of tropical evergreen trees and shrubs with thick shining parallel-veined leaves
- family passifloraceae, passifloraceae, passionflower family - tropical woody tendril-climbing vines
- family resedaceae, mignonette family, resedaceae - mainly Mediterranean herbs: mignonette
- family tamaricaceae, tamaricaceae, tamarisk family - family of desert shrubs and trees (mostly halophytes and xerophytes)
- family violaceae, violaceae, violet family - a family of order Parietales including the genera Viola, Hybanthus, Hymenanthera, Melicytus
- family santalaceae, sandalwood family, santalaceae - chiefly tropical herbs or shrubs or trees bearing nuts or one-seeded fruit
- family loranthaceae, loranthaceae, mistletoe family - in some classification includes Viscaceae: parasitic or hemiparasitic shrublets or shrubs or small trees of tropical and temperate regions; attach to hosts by haustoria
- family viscaceae, mistletoe family, viscaceae - in some classifications considered a subfamily of Loranthaceae
- family theaceae, tea family, theaceae - a family of trees and shrubs of the order Parietales
belongs to: dilleniidae, subclass dilleniidae - a group of families of more or less advanced trees and shrubs and herbs having either polypetalous or gamopetalous corollas and often with ovules attached to the walls of the ovary; contains 69 families including Ericaceae and Cruciferae and Malvaceae; sometimes classified as a superorder
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