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Calyciflorae is a grouping of plants that is no longer used by botanists.
Calyciflorae is a grouping of plants that is no longer used by botanists. Augustin Pyramus de Candolle
Augustin Pyramus (or Pyrame) de Candolle (, , ; 4 February 17789 September 1841) was a Swiss botanist. René Louiche Desfontaines launched de Candolle's botanical career by recommending him at a herbarium. Within a couple of years de Candoll ...
defined it as a subclass within the class Dicotyledoneae. It overlapped largely with the modern Rosids
The rosids are members of a large clade (monophyletic group) of flowering plants, containing about 70,000 species, more than a quarter of all angiosperms.
The clade is divided into 16 to 20 orders, depending upon circumscription and classificati ...
group. The group Calyciflorae was defined as:
* Flowers with sepal
A sepal () is a part of the flower of angiosperms (flowering plants). Usually green, sepals typically function as protection for the flower in bud, and often as support for the petals when in bloom., p. 106 The term ''sepalum'' was coine ...
s united at least at the base ( gamosepalous), a "torus" (disc) at the base of the calyx from which the petals and stamens appear to emerge, the ovary either free or attached to the calyx.
See also
* De Candolle systemReferences
Historically recognized angiosperm taxa {{angiosperm-stub