magnoliopsid genus

1. Genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination (synset 111587862)
   is a type of: genus - (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species
   subtypes:

   • magnoliid dicot genus - genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms
   • hamamelid dicot genus - genus of mostly woody relatively primitive dicotyledonous flowering plants with flowers often unisexual and often borne in catkins
   • caryophylloid dicot genus - genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers
   • dilleniid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs
   • asterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs
   • rosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plants
   • genus myrica, myrica - deciduous aromatic shrubs or small trees
   • comptonia, genus comptonia - one species: sweet fern
   • genus leitneria, leitneria - one species: corkwood
   • apocynum, genus apocynum - perennial herbs with small pink or white flowers
   • acocanthera, acokanthera, genus acocanthera, genus acokanthera - small genus of trees and shrubs containing strongly toxic cardiac glycosides; Arabia to Africa
   • adenium, genus adenium - one species: succulent shrub or tree of tropical Africa and Arabia
   • genus allamanda - genus of tropical American woody vines
   • alstonia, genus alstonia - genus of evergreen trees or shrubs with white funnel-shaped flowers and milky sap; tropical Africa to southeastern Asia and Polynesia
   • amsonia, genus amsonia - genus of herbs and subshrubs with milky juice and showy bluish flowers; Europe to Asia Minor to Japan and North America
   • beaumontia, genus beaumontia - small genus of evergreen woody vines in the East Indies and Asia
   • genus carissa - Old World genus of tropical evergreen usually spiny shrubs
   • catharanthus, genus catharanthus - small genus of erect annual or perennial herbs native to Madagascar; widely naturalized in the tropics; formerly included in genus Vinca
   • genus holarrhena, holarrhena - genus of deciduous trees and shrubs of tropical Africa and Asia
   • dipladenia, genus dipladenia, genus mandevilla, mandevilla - genus of tropical South American tuberous perennial woody vines with large racemose flowers and milky sap
   • genus nerium, nerium - one species: oleander
   • genus plumeria, plumeria, plumiera - deciduous shrubs and trees of tropical America having branches like candelabra and fragrant white or pink flowers
   • genus rauvolfia, genus rauwolfia - pantropical genus of somewhat poisonous shrubs and small trees
   • genus strophanthus - genus of tropical Asiatic and African shrubs and woody vines and small trees
   • genus tabernaemontana, tabernaemontana - evergreen tropical trees and shrubs with milky sap
   • genus thevetia, thevetia - genus of poisonous tropical American evergreen shrubs and trees having entire leaves and large cymose flowers
   • genus trachelospermum, trachelospermum - genus of Asiatic woody vines with milky sap in leaves and stems
   • genus vinca, vinca - periwinkles: low creeping evergreen perennials
   • aristolochia, genus aristolochia - birthworts; Dutchman's-pipe
   • asarum, genus asarum - wild ginger
   • genus nopalea, nopalea - a genus of the cactus family with scarlet flowers
   • genus primula - very large and important genus of plants of temperate Europe and Asia having showy flowers
   • anagallis, genus anagallis - chiefly Old World herbs
   • centunculus, genus centunculus - a dicotyledonous genus of the family Primulaceae
   • genus cyclamen - genus of widely cultivated flowering Eurasian herbs with centrally depressed rounded tubers and rounded heart-shaped leaves
   • genus glaux, glaux - sea milkwort
   • genus hottonia, hottonia - aquatic herbs
   • genus lysimachia, lysimachia - loosestrife: a cosmopolitan genus found in damp or swampy terrain having usually yellow flowers; inclined to be invasive
   • genus samolus, samolus - genus of herbs usually growing in salt marshes: water pimpernels
   • genus myrsine, myrsine - evergreen trees and shrubs having aromatic foliage; Africa; Asia (New Zealand)
   • ardisia, genus ardisia - tropical evergreen subshrubs (some climbers) to trees of Asia and Australasia to Americas
   • genus plumbago - shrubs and herbs and woody vines of warm regions: leadwort
   • armeria, genus armeria - shrubby or herbaceous low-growing evergreen perennials
   • genus limonium, limonium - sea lavender
   • genus jacquinia, jacquinia - sometimes placed in family Myrsinaceae
   • cucurbita, genus cucurbita - type genus of the Cucurbitaceae
   • genus bryonia - climbing perennial herbs: bryony
   • citrullus, genus citrullus - a dicot genus of the family Cucurbitaceae including watermelons
   • cucumis, genus cucumis - cucumbers; muskmelons
   • ecballium, genus ecballium - exploding cucumber; squirting cucumber
   • genus lagenaria, lagenaria - bottle gourds
   • genus luffa - dishcloth gourds
   • genus momordica, momordica - Old World tropical vine
   • goodenia - a genus of shrubs and herbs that grow in Australia and New Guinea and Malaysia and southeast Asia
   • genus lobelia - in some classifications considered the type genus of a separate family Lobeliaceae
   • bartle frere, genus bartle-frere, green dinosaur - a living fossil or so-called `green dinosaur'; genus or subfamily of primitive nut-bearing trees thought to have died out 50 million years ago; a single specimen found in 1994 on Mount Bartle Frere in eastern Australia; not yet officially named
   • genus protea - type genus of Proteaceae; tropical African shrubs
   • genus banksia - important genus of Australian evergreen shrubs or trees with alternate leathery leaves and yellowish flowers
   • conospermum, genus conospermum - Australian shrubs (some trees) with flowers in dense spikes: smoke bush
   • embothrium, genus embothrium - small genus of South American evergreen shrubs or small trees with long willowy branches and flowers in flamboyant terminal clusters
   • genus guevina, guevina - one species: Chilean nut
   • genus grevillea - large genus of Australian shrubs and trees having usually showy orange or red flowers
   • genus hakea, hakea - Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers
   • genus knightia, knightia - small genus of trees or shrubs of New Zealand and New Caledonia
   • genus lambertia, lambertia - small genus of Australian shrubs
   • genus leucadendron, leucadendron - large genus of evergreen trees and shrubs having silvery white leaves and solitary terminal flowers with conspicuous silvery bracts
   • genus lomatia - small genus of low-growing evergreens of Chile and Australia; some yield dyes
   • genus macadamia - trees or shrubs; Madagascar to Australia
   • genus orites, orites - small genus of Australian shrubs or trees
   • genus persoonia, persoonia - Australian undershrubs to small trees: geebungs
   • genus stenocarpus, stenocarpus - small genus of timber trees; Australia to Malaysia
   • genus telopea, telopea - Australian evergreen shrubs: waratahs
   • genus xylomelum, xylomelum - small species of Australian trees or shrubs; grown for their fruit and flowers
   • genus casuarina - genus of trees and shrubs widely naturalized in southern United States and West Indies; coextensive with the family Casuarinaceae and order Casuarinales
   • clethra, genus clethra - type and sole genus of the Clethraceae; deciduous shrubs or small trees: white alder, summer-sweet
   • centaurium, genus centaurium - genus of low-growing herbs mostly of northern hemisphere having flowers with protruding spirally twisted anthers
   • eustoma, genus eustoma - small genus of herbs of warm regions of southern North America to northern South America
   • exacum, genus exacum - genus of tropical Asiatic and African plants: especially Persian violets
   • frasera, genus frasera - genus of North American herbs: columbo; includes some species sometimes placed in genus Swertia
   • gentiana, genus gentiana - type genus of the Gentianaceae; cosmopolitan genus of herbs nearly cosmopolitan in cool temperate regions; in some classifications includes genera Gentianopsis and Gentianella
   • gentianella, genus gentianella - genus of herbs with flowers that resemble gentian; in some classifications included in genus Gentiana
   • gentianopsis, genus gentianopsis - genus of fringed gentians; in some classifications included in genus Gentiana
   • genus halenia, halenia - genus of herbs of Eurasia and the Americas: spurred gentians
   • genus sabbatia - genus of smooth slender North American herbs with showy flowers
   • genus swertia, swertia - genus of herbs of mountains of North America and Eurasia and Africa
   • genus salvadora, salvadora - genus of evergreen trees or shrubs; fruit is a drupe; grows in Africa through Arabia to India and China
   • genus olea, olea - evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits
   • chionanthus, genus chionanthus - deciduous trees or shrubs: fringe tree
   • genus forestiera - genus of often spiny American shrubs and trees
   • genus forsythia - forsythia
   • fraxinus, genus fraxinus - ash
   • genus jasminum, jasminum - shrubs and woody climbers mostly of tropical and temperate Old World: jasmine; jessamine
   • genus ligustrum, ligustrum - genus of Old World shrubs: privet
   • genus osmanthus, osmanthus - widely distributed genus of evergreen shrubs or trees of southern United States and Middle East and China and Japan
   • genus phillyrea, phillyrea - small genus of evergreen shrubs of the Mediterranean region
   • genus syringa, syringa - genus of Old World shrubs or low trees having fragrant flowers in showy panicles: lilacs
   • genus hamamelidanthum, hamamelidanthum - genus of fossil plants of the Oligocene having flowers resembling those of the witch hazel; found in Baltic region
   • genus hamamelidoxylon, hamamelidoxylon - genus of fossil plants having wood identical with or similar to that of the witch hazel
   • genus hamamelites, hamamelites - genus of fossil plants having leaves similar to those of the witch hazel
   • genus juglans, juglans - type genus of the Juglandaceae
   • carya, genus carya - genus of large deciduous nut-bearing trees; United States and China
   • genus pterocarya, pterocarya - Asiatic nut trees: wing nuts
   • genus combretum - type genus of the Combretaceae: tropical and subtropical small shrubs and trees
   • conocarpus, genus conocarpus - monotypic genus of tropical American trees: button tree
   • elaeagnus, genus elaeagnus - oleaster
   • genus myriophyllum, myriophyllum - chiefly monoecious and usually aquatic herbs (as the milfoils)
   • genus grias, grias - anchovy pear tree
   • bertholletia, genus bertholletia - brazil nut
   • genus lythrum, lythrum - loosestrife
   • genus myrtus, myrtus - type genus of the Myrtaceae
   • genus pimenta, pimenta - allspice tree
   • eugenia, genus eugenia - tropical trees and shrubs with aromatic leaves and often valuable hard wood
   • genus feijoa - small South American shrubs or trees
   • genus jambos, jambos - used in some classifications for rose apples (Eugenia jambos)
   • genus myrciaria, myrcia, myrciaria - a genus of tropical American trees and shrubs of the myrtle family
   • genus psidium, psidium - guavas
   • genus eucalyptus - tall trees native to the Australian region; source of timber and medicinal oils from the aromatic leaves
   • genus syzygium, syzygium - a tropical evergreen tree of the myrtle family native to the East Indies but cultivated elsewhere
   • genus nyssa, nyssa - tupelos: deciduous trees of moist habitats especially swamps and beside ponds
   • genus fuchsia - large genus of decorative tropical shrubs with pendulous tetramerous flowers
   • genus oenothera, oenothera - chiefly North American herbs with usually nocturnal flowers
   • genus punica, punica - coextensive with the family Punicaceae
   • genus rhizophora, rhizophora - type genus of the Rhizophoraceae; a small genus of tropical trees and shrubs
   • genus daphne - usually evergreen Eurasian shrubs
   • dirca, genus dirca - deciduous shrub of North America: leatherwood
   • genus trapa, trapa - small genus of Eurasian aquatic perennial herbs: water chestnut
   • genus urtica, urtica - a nettle yielding fiber resembling flax
   • boehmeria, genus boehmeria - false nettle
   • genus helxine, genus soleirolia, helxine, soleirolia - one species; a dwarf creeping mat-forming evergreen herb
   • genus laportea, laportea - mostly tropical stinging herbs or trees: nettle
   • genus parietaria, parietaria - small genus of stingless herbs
   • genus pilea, pilea - low-growing tropical perennials grown for their stingless foliage
   • genus pipturus, pipturus - an Australian genus of woody plants of the family Urticaceae
   • genus cannabis - hemp: genus of coarse annuals native to central Asia and widely naturalized in north temperate regions; in some classifications included in the family Moraceae
   • genus humulus, humulus - hops: hardy perennial vines of Europe, North America and central and eastern Asia producing a latex sap; in some classifications included in the family Urticaceae
   • genus morus, morus - type genus of the Moraceae: mulberries
   • genus maclura, maclura - yellowwood trees or shrubs
   • artocarpus, genus artocarpus - evergreen Asiatic trees now grown through the tropics: breadfruit; jackfruit
   • ficus, genus ficus - large genus of tropical trees or shrubs or climbers including fig trees
   • broussonetia, genus broussonetia - paper mulberry
   • cecropia, genus cecropia - large genus of tropical American trees that yield a bast fiber used for cordage and bark used in tanning; milky juice yields caoutchouc
   • genus ulmus, ulmus - type genus of family Ulmaceae; deciduous trees having simple serrate leaves; widely distributed in temperate regions
   • celtis, genus celtis - large genus of trees and shrubs with berrylike fruit
   • genus planera, planera - a deciduous tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in the southeastern United States
   • genus trema, trema - an evergreen tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in tropical America and Africa and Asia
   • genus menyanthes, menyanthes - the type genus of the Menyanthaceae; one species: bogbeans
   • genus logania, logania - type genus of the Loganiaceae; Australian and New Zealand shrubs sometimes cultivated for their flowers
   • genus buddleia - shrubs or trees of warm regions
   • gelsemium, genus gelsemium - evergreen twining shrubs of Americas and southeastern Asia
   • genus plantago, plantago - type genus of the family Plantaginaceae; large cosmopolitan genus of mostly small herbs
   • genus polygonum, polygonum - diverse genus of herbs or woody subshrubs of north temperate regions
   • fagopyrum, genus fagopyrum - buckwheat; in some classifications included in the genus Polygonum
   • genus eriogonum - North American herbs of the buckwheat family
   • genus rheum, rheum - rhubarb
   • genus rumex, rumex - docks: coarse herbs and shrubs mainly native to north temperate regions
   • dodonaea, genus dodonaea - a genus of tropical shrub or tree
   • genus sapindus, sapindus - type genus of the Sapindaceae
   • blighia, genus blighia - small genus of western African evergreen trees and shrubs bearing fleshy capsular three-seeded fruits edible when neither unripe nor overripe
   • cardiospermum, genus cardiospermum - tendril-climbing herbs or shrubs whose seeds have a white heart-shaped spot
   • dimocarpus, genus dimocarpus - longan
   • genus harpullia - genus of tropical Asiatic and African trees
   • genus litchi - Chinese trees
   • genus melicocca, genus melicoccus, melicocca, melicoccus - tropical American trees and shrubs bearing berries
   • genus nephelium, nephelium - a genus of dicotyledonous trees of the family Sapindaceae that are native to Asia and Australia
   • buxus, genus buxus - type genus of the Buxaceae
   • genus pachysandra - evergreen perennial procumbent subshrubs or herbs
   • celastrus, genus celastrus - genus of woody vines and erect shrubs (type genus of the Celastraceae) that is native chiefly to Asia and Australia: includes bittersweet
   • euonymus, genus euonymus - widely distributed chiefly evergreen shrubs or small trees or vines
   • genus cyrilla - one species: trees and shrubs having flowers with acute or twisted petals and wingless fruit
   • cliftonia, genus cliftonia - one species: titi
   • empetrum, genus empetrum - crowberries
   • acer, genus acer - type genus of the Aceraceae; trees or shrubs having winged fruit
   • dipteronia, genus dipteronia - small genus of large deciduous shrubs having large clusters of winged seeds that turn red as they mature; central and southern China
   • genus ilex, ilex - a large genus of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs of the family Aquifoliaceae that have small flowers and berries (including hollies)
   • anacardium, genus anacardium - type genus of the Anacardiaceae: cashew
   • astronium, genus astronium - a genus of dicotyledonous plants of the family Anacardiaceae
   • cotinus, genus cotinus - smoke trees
   • genus malosma, malosma - one species; often included in the genus Rhus
   • genus mangifera, mangifera - tropical tree native to Asia bearing fleshy fruit
   • genus pistacia, pistacia - a dicotyledonous genus of trees of the family Anacardiaceae having drupaceous fruit
   • genus rhodosphaera, rhodosphaera - one species; an Australian evergreen sumac
   • genus rhus, rhus - deciduous or evergreen shrubs and shrubby trees of temperate and subtropical North America, South Africa, eastern Asia and northeastern Australia; usually limited to nonpoisonous sumacs (see genus Toxicodendron)
   • genus schinus, schinus - genus of evergreen shrubs and trees of tropical and subtropical regions of South and Central America and Canary Islands and China
   • genus spondias, spondias - tropical trees having one-seeded fruit
   • genus toxicodendron, toxicodendron - in some classifications: comprising those members of the genus Rhus having foliage that is poisonous to the touch; of North America and northern South America
   • aesculus, genus aesculus - deciduous trees or some shrubs of North America; southeastern Europe; eastern Asia
   • genus staphylea, staphylea - a genus of small trees or shrubs of the family Staphylaceae
   • diospyros, genus diospyros - a genus of trees or shrubs that have beautiful and valuable wood
   • achras, genus achras - tropical trees having papery leaves and large fruit
   • bumelia, genus bumelia - deciduous or evergreen American shrubs small trees having very hard wood and milky latex
   • calocarpum, genus calocarpum - a genus of tropical American trees of the family Sapotaceae
   • chrysophyllum, genus chrysophyllum - tropical American evergreen trees or shrubs
   • genus manilkara, manilkara - genus of large evergreen trees with milky latex; pantropical
   • genus palaquium, palaquium - large genus of Malaysian trees with milky juice and leathery leaves
   • genus payena, payena - genus of medium to large Malaysian trees yielding gutta-percha
   • genus pouteria, pouteria - tropical American timber tree with edible fruit (canistel)
   • genus symplocus, symplocus - type and sole genus of Symplocaceae including sweetleaf
   • genus styrax - deciduous or evergreen shrubs and small trees
   • genus halesia, halesia - deciduous small trees or shrubs of China and eastern North America
   • genus sarracenia, sarracenia - pitcher plants
   • darlingtonia, genus darlingtonia - one species: California pitcher plant
   • genus heliamphora, heliamphora - genus of pitcher plants of the Guiana Highlands in South America
   • genus nepenthes, nepenthes - pitcher plants
   • drosera, genus drosera - the type genus of Droseraceae including many low bog-inhabiting insectivorous plants
   • dionaea, genus dionaea - a genus of the family Droseraceae
   • aldrovanda, genus aldrovanda - one species: waterwheel plant
   • drosophyllum, genus drosophyllum - one species
   • genus roridula - insectivorous undershrubs of South Africa; in some classifications placed in the family Droseraceae
   • cordia, genus cordia - tropical deciduous or evergreen trees or shrubs of the family Boraginaceae
   • genus convolvulus - genus of mostly climbing or scrambling herbs and shrubs: bindweed
   • argyreia, genus argyreia - woody climbers of tropical Asia to Australia
   • calystegia, genus calystegia - climbing or scrambling herbs: bindweed
   • cuscuta, genus cuscuta - genus of twining leafless parasitic herbs lacking chlorophyll: dodder
   • genus dichondra - genus of chiefly tropical prostrate perennial herbs with creeping stems that root at the nodes
   • genus ipomoea, ipomoea - morning glory
   • genus monardella, monardella - a genus of fragrant herbs of the family Labiatae in the western United States
   • genus rhamnus, rhamnus - type genus of the Rhamnaceae: buckthorns
   • colubrina, genus colubrina - mostly tropical American shrubs or small trees with small yellowish flowers and yellow or red fruits
   • genus ziziphus, ziziphus - spiny chiefly tropical American and Asiatic shrubs: jujubes
   • genus paliurus, paliurus - thorny Eurasian shrubs
   • genus pomaderris, pomaderris - a genus of Australasian shrubs and trees
   • genus vitis, vitis - the type genus of the family Vitaceae; woody vines with simple leaves and small flowers; includes a wide variety of grapes
   • genus parthenocissus, parthenocissus - woody vines having disklike tips on the tendrils
   • genus piper, piper - type genus of the Piperaceae: large genus of chiefly climbing tropical shrubs
   • genus peperomia - large genus of small tropical usually succulent herbs
   • chloranthus, genus chloranthus - type genus of the Chloranthaceae
   • genus saururus, saururus - type genus of the Saururaceae: lizard's-tails
   • anemopsis, genus anemopsis - one species: yerba mansa
   • genus houttuynia, houttuynia - one species; east Asian low-growing plant of wet places
   • asclepias, genus asclepias - genus of chiefly North American perennial herbs: silkweed; milkweed
   • araujia, genus araujia - small genus of South American evergreen vines
   • genus cynancum - genus of perennial tropical African lianas
   • genus hoya - large genus of climbing shrubs of Australia and Asia and Polynesia
   • genus periploca, periploca - genus of woody vines of warm regions of the Old World
   • genus sarcostemma, sarcostemma - succulent subshrubs or vines; tropical and subtropical India and Africa and Malaysia
   • genus stapelia - genus of foul-smelling plants resembling cacti; found from Africa to East India
   • genus stephanotis - genus of Old World tropical woody vines
   • genus vincetoxicum, vincetoxicum - genus of chiefly tropical American vines having cordate leaves and large purple or greenish cymose flowers; supposedly having powers as an antidote
   belongs to: class dicotyledonae, class dicotyledones, class magnoliopsida, dicotyledonae, dicotyledones, magnoliopsida - comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with paired cotyledons and net-veined leaves; divided into six (not always well distinguished) subclasses (or superorders): Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae (considered primitive); Caryophyllidae (an early and distinctive offshoot); and three more or less advanced groups: Dilleniidae; Rosidae; Asteridae
   same as: dicot genus

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