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Dilleniaceae

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n.1.a natural family of chiefly tropical shrubs and trees and climbers having leathery leaves or flattened leaflike stems, including the genera Dillenia and Hibbertia.
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Noun1.Dilleniaceae - chiefly tropical shrubs and trees and climbers having leathery leaves or flattened leaflike stems: genera Dillenia and Hibbertia
dilleniid dicot family - family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs
Hypericales, order Hypericales, order Parietales, Parietales - a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae
genus Dillenia - East Indian and Australian shrubs and trees having panicles of large white or yellow flowers
genus Hibbertia, Hibbertia - evergreen heathlike or scandent shrubs of Madagascar; Australasia; Polynesia


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1993), sister to either the Gunneraceae and the Dilleniaceae, the ranunculids or Ceratophyllum (Soltis et al.
The most medicinally rich families were the Euphorbiaceae (5), Melastomataceae (5), Fabaceae (4), Dilleniaceae (4), Menispermaceae (3), Poaceae (3), Rubiaceae (3), and Schizaceae (3).
 
 
 
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