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Capparidaceae, caper family, family Capparidaceae
a dilleniid dicot family of the order Rhoeadales that includes: genera Capparis, Cleome, Crateva, and Polanisia
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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
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Papaveraceae, family Papaveraceae, poppy family
herbs or shrubs having milky and often colored juices and capsular fruits
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Fumariaceae, family Fumariaceae, fumitory family
erect or climbing herbs of the northern hemisphere and southern Africa: bleeding heart; Dutchman's breeches; fumitory; squirrel corn
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Loasaceae, family Loasaceae, loasa family
family of bristly hairy sometimes climbing plants; America and Africa and southern Arabia
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Malvaceae, family Malvaceae, mallow family
herbs and shrubs and some trees: mallows; cotton; okra
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Bombacaceae, family Bombacaceae
tropical trees with large dry or fleshy fruit containing usually woolly seeds
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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
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Sterculiaceae, family Sterculiaceae, sterculia family
a large family of plants of order Malvales
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Tiliaceae, family Tiliaceae, linden family
chiefly trees and shrubs of tropical and temperate regions of especially southeastern Asia and Brazil; genera Tilia, Corchorus, Entelea, Grewia, Sparmannia
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Ericaceae, family Ericaceae, heath family
heathers
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Clethraceae, family Clethraceae, white-alder family
coextensive with the genus Clethra
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Diapensiaceae, diapensia family, family Diapensiaceae
north temperate low evergreen plants; in some classifications placed in its own order Diapensiales
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Epacridaceae, epacris family, family Epacridaceae
Australasian shrubs or small trees
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Lennoaceae, family Lennoaceae
family of fleshy parasitic herbs lacking green foliage and having heads of small flowers; California and Mexico
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Pyrolaceae, family Pyrolaceae, wintergreen family
evergreen herbs of temperate regions: genera Pyrola, Chimaphila, Moneses, Orthilia
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Monotropaceae, family Monotropaceae
used in some classification for saprophytic herbs sometimes included in the family Pyrolaceae: genera Monotropa and Sarcodes
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Begoniaceae, begonia family, family Begoniaceae
monoecious succulent herbs or shrubs of tropical and warm regions especially America
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Dilleniaceae, family Dilleniaceae
chiefly tropical shrubs and trees and climbers having leathery leaves or flattened leaflike stems: genera Dillenia and Hibbertia
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Clusiaceae, Guttiferae, St John's wort family, family Clusiaceae, family Guttiferae
widely distributed family of chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines that produce oils and resins and some usable timber
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Hypericaceae, family Hypericaceae
used in some classification systems for plants usually included among the Guttiferae
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Actinidiaceae, family Actinidiaceae
tropical trees or shrubs or woody vines
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Canellaceae, canella family, family Canellaceae
one genus: aromatic tropical trees of eastern Africa and Florida to West Indies
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Caricaceae, family Caricaceae, papaya family
trees native to tropical America and Africa with milky juice and large palmately lobed leaves
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Caryocaraceae, family Caryocaraceae
small genus of tropical South American trees
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Cistaceae, family Cistaceae, rockrose family
shrubs or woody herbs of temperate regions especially Mediterranean
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Dipterocarpaceae, family Dipterocarpaceae
chiefly tropical Asian trees with two-winged fruits; yield valuable woods and aromatic oils and resins
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Flacourtiaceae, family Flacourtiaceae, flacourtia family
chiefly tropical trees and shrubs
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Fouquieriaceae, family Fouquieriaceae
small family of spiny shrubs or trees of southwestern United States
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Ochnaceae, family Ochnaceae, ochna family
family of tropical evergreen trees and shrubs with thick shining parallel-veined leaves
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Passifloraceae, family Passifloraceae, passionflower family
tropical woody tendril-climbing vines
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Resedaceae, family Resedaceae, mignonette family
mainly Mediterranean herbs: mignonette
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Tamaricaceae, family Tamaricaceae, tamarisk family
family of desert shrubs and trees (mostly halophytes and xerophytes)
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Violaceae, family Violaceae, violet family
a family of order Parietales including the genera Viola, Hybanthus, Hymenanthera, Melicytus
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Santalaceae, family Santalaceae, sandalwood family
chiefly tropical herbs or shrubs or trees bearing nuts or one-seeded fruit
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Loranthaceae, family 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
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Viscaceae, family Viscaceae, mistletoe family
in some classifications considered a subfamily of Loranthaceae
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Theaceae, family Theaceae, tea family
a family of trees and shrubs of the order Parietales
