hamamelid dicot family

1. Family of mostly woody dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins (synset 111585185)
   is a type of: dicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
   subtypes:

   • beech family, fagaceae, family fagaceae - chiefly monoecious trees and shrubs: beeches; chestnuts; oaks; genera Castanea, Castanopsis, Chrysolepis, Fagus, Lithocarpus, Nothofagus, Quercus
   • betulaceae, birch family, family betulaceae - monoecious trees and shrubs (including the genera Betula and Alnus and Carpinus and Corylus and Ostrya and Ostryopsis)
   • carpinaceae, family carpinaceae, subfamily carpinaceae - used in some classification systems for the genera Carpinus, Ostryopsis, and Ostryopsis
   • corylaceae, family corylaceae, subfamily corylaceae - used in some classification systems for the genus Corylus
   • family hamamelidaceae, hamamelidaceae, witch-hazel family - comprises genera Hamamelis, Corylopsis, Fothergilla, Liquidambar, Parrotia, and other small genera
   • family salicaceae, salicaceae, willow family - two genera of trees or shrubs having hairy catkins: Salix; Populus
   belongs to: hamamelidae, subclass hamamelidae - a group of chiefly woody plants considered among the most primitive of angiosperms; perianth poorly developed or lacking; flowers often unisexual and often in catkins and often wind pollinated; contains 23 families including the Betulaceae and Fagaceae (includes the Amentiferae); sometimes classified as a superorder

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