| Noun | 1. | family Lepidobotryaceae - family created in 1950 solely for the classification of a distinctive African tree repeatedly classified in other families; trees long believed to exist only in Africa rosid dicot family - a family of dicotyledonous plants Geraniales, order Geraniales - an order of plants of subclass Rosidae including geraniums and many other plants; see Euphorbiaceae; Geraniaceae; Rutaceae; Malpighiaceae; Simaroubaceae; Meliaceae; Zygophyllaceae; Tropaeolaceae genus Lepidobotrys - a genus of dicotyledonous trees belonging to the family Lepidobotryaceae genus Ruptiliocarpon, Ruptiliocarpon - new (1993) genus of trees of Central America now recognized as similar to those of genus Lepidobotrys |