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21Malpighiales — ▪ plant order Introduction large order of flowering plants that includes 40 families, more than 700 genera, and almost 16,000 species. Many of the families are tropical and poorly known, but well known members of the order include Salicaceae (… …
22Cucurbitales — ▪ plant order Introduction small order of flowering plants containing seven families, 129 genera, and 2,295 species. It includes Begoniaceae, or the begonia family, with 60 percent of the species in the order, and Cucurbitaceae, or the squash,… …
23Lamiales — ▪ plant order Introduction mint order of flowering plants, including 23 families and more than 23,000 species. The main families in the order are Lamiaceae, Verbenaceae, Plantaginaceae, Scrophulariaceae, Orobanachaceae, Acanthaceae,… …
24Brassicales — ▪ plant order Introduction order of flowering plants that includes cabbages (cabbage) and capers, as well as mignonette, mustard, and nasturtiums (nasturtium). Brassicales includes 17 families, 398 genera, and 4,450 species. There are five… …
25cycadophyte — ▪ plant Introduction any member of a diverse collection of mostly extinct primitive gymnospermous plants. They probably had their origins among the progymnosperms of the Devonian Period (416 to 359 million years ago), possibly among a… …
26Silphium — ▪ plant genus genus of tall perennial plants in the family Asteraceae, consisting of about 23 yellow flowered species commonly called rosinweed, native to North America. Many species have rough leaves that may be opposite each other,… …
27Casuarinaceae — ▪ plant family the beefwood family of dicotyledonous flowering plants, with two genera (Casuarina, 30 species; Gymnostoma, 20 species) of trees and shrubs, many of which have a distinctly pinelike aspect when seen from afar. They are naturally… …
28Geraniales — ▪ plant order the geranium order of dicotyledonous flowering plants, belonging to the basal Rosid group of the core eudicots. It consists of 5 families, 17 genera, and nearly 850 species, most of these belonging to Geraniaceae. Members are… …
29ginkgophyte — ▪ plant division Introduction any member of the division Ginkgophyta, a group of gymnospermous plants of particular interest to paleobotanists. Two of the three genera of ginkgophytes, Ginkgoites and Baiera, are extinct. The third genus,… …
30canary creeper — ▪ plant also called Canarybird Flower, Canarybird Vine, or Canary Nasturtium (species Tropaeolum peregrinum), annual climbing herb, of the family Tropaeolaceae, native to northwestern South America and introduced to other regions as a… …
