caryophylloid dicot genus

Definitions of caryophylloid dicot genus

1. noun

   genus of relatively early dicotyledonous plants including mostly flowers
   types:

   Agrostemma, genus Agrostemma

   a caryophylloid dicot genus including corn cockles

   Arenaria, genus Arenaria

   sandworts

   Cerastium, genus Cerastium

   mouse-eared chickweed

   Dianthus, genus Dianthus

   carnations and pinks

   genus Drypis

   one species

   Gypsophila, genus Gypsophila

   Mediterranean herbs having small white or pink flowers

   Hernaria, genus Hernaria

   low-growing Old World herbs with minute bright green leaves

   Illecebrum, genus Illecebrum

   one species: coral necklace

   genus Lychnis

   genus of plants strongly resembling those of genus Silene: catchfly

   Minuartia, genus Minuartia

   mostly perennial herbs of northern hemisphere often with mat-forming habit; most often placed in genus Arenaria: sandworts

   Moehringia, genus Moehringia

   low-growing herbs widely distributed in temperate and Arctic northern hemisphere: sandworts; distinguished from members of the genus Arenaria mainly by having four-petaled rather than five-petaled flowers

   Paronychia, genus Paronychia

   low-growing annual or perennial herbs or woody plants; whitlowworts

   Petrocoptis, genus Petrocoptis

   perennial tussock-forming rock plants; of Pyrenees and mountains of northern Spain; similar to and sometimes placed in genus Lychnis

   Sagina, genus Sagina

   small low-growing annual or perennial herbs of temperate and cool regions

   Saponaria, genus Saponaria

   mostly perennial Old World herbs

   Scleranthus, genus Scleranthus

   small genus of Old World weedy prostrate annuals: knawel

   genus Silene

   large widely distributed genus of plants having mostly showy flowers of various colors: campion; catchfly

   Spergula, genus Spergula

   small genus of Old World annual herbs: corn spurry

   Spergularia, genus Spergularia

   chiefly maritime Eurasian herbs: sand spurry; sea spurry

   Vaccaria, genus Vaccaria

   cow-cockles

   Carpobrotus, genus Carpobrotus

   a caryophyllaceous genus of Carpobrotus

   Dorotheanthus, genus Dorotheanthus

   a caryophyllaceous genus of Dorotheanthus

   genus Lithops

   genus of stemless South African succulents

   Mesembryanthemum, genus Mesembryanthemum

   South African annual or biennial plants having flowers that open only in bright sunlight

   Molluga, genus Molluga

   carpetweeds

   Pleiospilos, genus Pleiospilos

   perennial succulents of South Africa

   Tetragonia, genus Tetragonia

   New Zealand spinach

   Amaranthus, genus Amaranthus

   large widely distributed genus of chiefly coarse annual herbs

   Alternanthera, genus Alternanthera

   genus of low herbs of tropical America and Australia; includes genus Telanthera

   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

   Gomphrena, genus Gomphrena

   genus of tropical herbs or subshrubs having flowers in close heads; tropical America and Australia

   Iresine, genus Iresine

   genus of tropical American herbs or subshrubs

   Telanthera, genus Telanthera

   used in former classifications systems; now included in genus Alternanthera

   Batis, genus Batis

   small genus of plants constituting the family Batidaceae: low straggling dioecious shrubs

   Chenopodium, genus Chenopodium

   goosefoot; pigweed

   Atriplex, genus Atriplex

   orach; saltbush

   Bassia, Kochia, genus Bassia, genus Kochia

   summer cypress

   Beta, genus Beta

   beets

   Cycloloma, genus Cycloloma

   a caryophyllaceous genus of the family Chenopodiaceae

   genus Halogeton

   a caryophyllaceous genus of the family Chenopodiaceae

   Salicornia, genus Salicornia

   glassworts

   Salsola, genus Salsola

   chiefly Old World herbs or shrubs: saltworts

   Sarcobatus, genus Sarcobatus

   one species: greasewood

   Spinacia, genus Spinacia

   spinach

   Nyctaginia, genus Nyctaginia

   a caryophyllaceous genus of the family Nyctaginaceae having only one species

   Abronia, genus Abronia

   genus of western North American herbs having showy flowers

   Allionia, genus Allionia

   small genus of chiefly American herbs

   Bougainvillaea, genus Bougainvillaea, genus Bougainvillea

   ornamental tropical woody vines

   Mirabilis, genus Mirabilis

   four o'clocks

   Pisonia, genus Pisonia

   genus of often thorny tropical trees and shrubs and some vines; mainly America

   Acanthocereus, genus Acanthocereus

   mostly trailing cacti having nocturnal white flowers; tropical America and Caribbean region

   Aporocactus, genus Aporocactus

   small genus of epiphytic cacti of Mexico

   Ariocarpus, genus Ariocarpus

   slow-growing geophytic cacti; northern and eastern Mexico; southern Texas

   Carnegiea, genus Carnegiea

   caryophylloid dicot genus with only one species: saguaro

   Cereus, genus Cereus

   genus of much-branched treelike or shrubby cacti with pronounced ribs and rounded needlelike spines and nocturnal flowers usually white

   genus Coryphantha

   mainly globose cacti of southwestern United States and Mexico covered with many nodules; superficially resembling and formerly included in genus Mammillaria

   genus Echinocactus

   globular or cylindrical cacti; southwestern United States to Brazil

   Echinocereus, genus Echinocereus

   large genus of low-growing shrubby ribbed cacti of Mexico and southwestern United States

   genus Epiphyllum

   small genus of tropical American (mainly Central America) cacti

   Ferocactus, genus Ferocactus

   genus of nearly globular cacti of Mexico and southwestern United States: barrel cacti

   Gymnocalycium, genus Gymnocalycium

   large genus of low-growing globular South American cacti with spiny ribs covered with many tubercles

   Harrisia, genus Harrisia

   genus of slender often treelike spiny cacti with solitary showy nocturnal white or pink flowers; Florida and Caribbean to South America

   Hatiora, genus Hatiora

   small genus of South American epiphytic or lithophytic cacti

   Hylocereus, genus Hylocereus

   genus of climbing or epiphytic tropical American cacti with angular stems and mostly white very fragrant flowers

   Lemaireocereus, genus Lemaireocereus

   tropical American cacti usually tall and branching with stout spines and funnel-shaped flowers and globular or ovoid often edible fruit

   Lophophora, genus Lophophora

   two species of small cacti of northeastern Mexico and southwestern United States having rounded stems covered with jointed tubercles: mescal

   genus Mammillaria

   large genus of cacti characterized chiefly by nipple-shaped protuberances or tubercles on their surface

   Melocactus, genus Melocactus

   genus of strongly ribbed globose or spheroid cacti of tropical South and Central America and the Caribbean

   Myrtillocactus, genus Myrtillocactus

   small genus of arborescent cacti of Mexico and Central America

   Pediocactus, genus Pediocactus

   low-growing cacti of the Great Plains of North America

   Opuntia, genus Opuntia

   large genus of cactuses native to America: prickly pears

   Peireskia, Pereskia, genus Peireskia, genus Pereskia

   genus of tropical American shrubby trees and woody climbers having slender branches with broad flat leaves and large panicles of flowers

   Rhipsalis, genus Rhipsalis

   large genus of epiphytic or lithophytic unarmed cacti with usually segmented stems and pendulous branches; flowers are small followed by berrylike fruits

   Schlumbergera, genus Schlumbergera

   South American epiphytic or lithophytic cacti

   Selenicereus, genus Selenicereus

   mostly epiphytic climbing cacti that bloom at night

   Zygocactus, genus Zygocactus

   small genus of Brazilian cacti having flat fleshy usually branched joints and showy red or pink flowers followed by red fleshy fruits

   Phytolacca, genus Phytolacca

   type genus of Phytolaccaceae: pokeweed

   Agdestis, genus Agdestis

   a genus with one species that is a rapidly growing climbing vine with tuberous roots; grown in hot climates

   Ercilla, genus Ercilla

   a genus of evergreen climbers

   Rivina, genus Rivina

   small genus of erect perennial shrubby herbs; tropical and subtropical America

   Trichostigma, genus Trichostigma

   a genus of erect or climbing shrubs found in tropical South America

   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

   Lewisia, genus Lewisia

   genus of western North American low-growing herbs having linear woolly leaves and large pink flowers

   Montia, genus Montia

   small genus of densely tufted annual herbs; north temperate regions and South America and tropical Africa and Asia

   Spraguea, genus Spraguea

   small genus of usually perennial herbs having deep woody taproots and flower heads of umbels or cymes

   Talinum, genus Talinum

   genus of mainly American more-or-less succulent herbs

   type of:

   dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus

   genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination