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Caryophyllaceae (carnation) with Attributes

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Caryophyllaceae, commonly called the pink family or carnation family, is a family of flowering plants. It is included in the dicotyledon order Caryophyllales in the APG III system, alongside 33 other families, including Amaranthaceae, Cactaceae, and Polygonaceae. It is a large family, with 81 genera and about 2,625 known species.
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Genus

Achyronychia (achyronychia) (1)
Agrostemma (corncockles) (2)
Arenaria (sandwort) (12)
Atocion (1)
Cardionema (cardionema) (1)
Cerastium (mouse-ear chickweed) (27)
Cherleria (4)
Corrigiola (1)
Dianthus (13)
Drymaria (drymary) (9)
Eremogone (8)
Facchinia (1)
Gypsophila (baby's-breath) (11)
Hartmaniella (1)
Heliosperma (1)
Herniaria (rupturewort) (3)
Holosteum (holosteum) (1)
Honckenya (honckenya) (1)
Illecebrum (coral necklace) (1)
Lepyrodiclis (false jagged-ckickweed) (1)
Loeflingia (loeflingia) (1)
Moehringia (sandwort) (4)
Moenchia (upright chickweed) (1)
Mononeuria (8)
Myosoton (myosoton) (1)
Paronychia (nailwort) (26)
Petrorhagia (3)
Polycarpaea (polycarpaea) (1)
Polycarpon (manyseeds) (1)
Psammophiliella (1)
Pseudocherleria (1)
Pseudostellaria (pseudostellaria) (2)
Rabelera (1)
Sabulina (16)
Sagina (pearlworts) (10)
Saponaria (soapwort) (3)
Schiedea (schiedea) (27)
Scleranthus (German knotgrass) (2)
Scopulophila (rockwort) (1)
Silene (campion) (81)
Spergula (spurry) (6)
Spergularia (sandspurrys) (9)
Stellaria (stitchwort) (24)
Stipulicida (stipulicida) (1)
Wilhelmsia (wilhelmsia) (1)

(...) = Species count

External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0