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Caryophyllidia are an anatomical feature of the external dorsal surface of dorid sea slugs. Caryophyllidia are sensory tubercles , surrounded by tiny needle-like structures called spicules, that are present on the outer mantle .
Caryophyllineae. Polygonineae. Synonyms. Centrospermae. Caryophyllales is a flowering plant order that includes the cacti, carnations, amaranths, ice plants, and most carnivorous plants. Many members are succulent, having fleshy stems or leaves .
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Relationships of Caryophyllales to other major clades of eudicots remain unclear. Cronquist (1981) and Takhtajan (1980, 1997), on the basis of floral characters, viewed Caryophyllidae as being derived from Ranunculales-type ancestors. However, phylogenetic analyses using many gene sequences place Caryophyllales firmly within the core eudicots.
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Caryophyllales is a diverse order in habit, leaf arrangement, floral features, and fruits. Many of its tropical families are evergreen trees or shrubs and occasionally lianas (e.g., Ancistrocladaceae, Barbeuiaceae, Cactaceae, Nepenthaceae). Prostrate or erect plants with succulent stems or leaves characterize a number of the families from warm temp...
Caryophyllales is a diverse order in habit, leaf arrangement, floral features, and fruits. Many of its tropical families are evergreen trees or shrubs and occasionally lianas (e.g., Ancistrocladaceae, Barbeuiaceae, Cactaceae, Nepenthaceae). Prostrate or erect plants with succulent stems or leaves characterize a number of the families from warm temp...
Droseraceae, the sundew or Venus flytrap family, contains species with leaves modified as real traps—i.e., active mechanisms that clamp shut or coil about victims lured by nectar secretions and delicate odours. The family’s members are mainly herbs found in bogs, damp heaths, and wet savannas. Droseraceae are characterized by the presence of petals, separate stamens, bisexual flowers (stamens and pistil in the same flower), and a one-chambered ovary.
The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula), for example, is restricted to the coastal plain of the Carolinas in the southeastern United States, where it grows along edges of ponds and wet depressions. Its leaves radiate at ground level from a short stem. The blade of each leaf consists of two lobes hinged to each other like the jaws of a steel trap and provided with spinelike teeth along the margins. Many nectar glands and bright red digestive glands cover the lobes’ surface. Three pressure-sensitive hairs arise from the middle of each lobe. When touched two or more times in quick succession, these hairs transmit a chemical message that causes the two lobes to close together, trapping the insect. When stimulated, the trap springs shut with amazing speed, usually within half a second or less. The leaf’s two lobes close tighter as the prey struggles; digestive glands exude enzymes that digest the insect’s softer parts within about a week. A leaf dies after three or four trappings.
Nepenthaceae, the Old World pitcher plant family, is characterized by a relatively limited geographic range (Madagascar, Southeast Asia, Australia). Its members are shrubby to woody climbers with unique pitchers formed of modified leaves. The unisexual flowers lack petals; male flowers have stamens united into a column, and female flowers have a fo...
The caryophyllids are a large group of eudicot flowering plants -- in fact they include more than 11,000 species, or about 7% of all flowering plants. Most of these species belong to one of three caryophyllid families: Aizoaceae (ice plants), Cactaceae (cacti), or Caryophyllaceae (carnations). Several representative caryophyllids are pictured ...
Flower; K 4-5 Co 4-5 or 0 S 5 or 5+5 P (2-5); Sexuality: usu. bisexual, rarely unisexual/dioecious: Symmetry: actinomorphic: Inflorescence: usu. cyme, some solitary: Calyx (sepals): 4 to 5, separate or sometimes connate (=united), often imbricate (=overlapping) with membranous margin
Members of the Caryophyllidae are familiar; the goosefoot family Chenopodiaceae include spinach and sugar beet, as well as weedy species of Chenopodium, and the halophytes Atriplex, Salicornia, and Sueda found on shorelines and saltmarshes.
