Caryophyllaceae

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Carnation faimily
Silene dioica
Scientific classification
Kinrick: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Core eudicots
Order: Caryophyllales
Faimily: Caryophyllaceae
Juss.[1]
Genera

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Caryophyllaceae, for ordinar cried the pink faimily or carnation faimily, is a faimily o flouerin plants. It is includit in the dicotyledon order Caryophyllales in the APG III seestem, alangside 33 ither faimilies, includin Amaranthaceae, Cactaceae, an Polygonaceae.[1] It is a lairge faimily, wi 81 genera an aboot 2,625 kent species.[2]

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  1. a b Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009). "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III". Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society. 161 (2): 105–121. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x.
  2. Christenhusz, M. J. M. & Byng, J. W. (2016). "The number of known plants species in the world and its annual increase". Phytotaxa. Magnolia Press. 261 (3): 201–217. doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.261.3.1. Cite uses deprecated parameter |lastauthoramp= (help)