caryophylloid dicot genus - genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowersdicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination Caryophyllidae, subclass Caryophyllidae - a group of families of mostly flowers having basal or free-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 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 4- rather than 5-petaled flowers 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 Silene - large widely distributed genus of plants having mostly showy flowers of various colors: campion; catchfly 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 |