family portulacaceae

Noun
  1. Family of usually succulent herbs;
    Cosmopolitan in distribution especially in Americas (synset 111877450)
    is a type of: caryophylloid dicot family - family of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers
    member holonym:
    • 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: caryophyllales, chenopodiales, order caryophyllales, order-chenopodiales - corresponds approximately to the older group Centrospermae
    same as: portulacaceae, purslane family

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