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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 Candolle ...
defined it as a subclass within the class Dicotyledoneae
The dicotyledons, also known as dicots (or, more rarely, dicotyls), are one of the two groups into which all the flowering plants (angiosperms) were formerly divided. The name refers to one of the typical characteristics of the group: namely, t ...
. It overlapped largely with the modern Rosids group. The group Calyciflorae was defined as:
* Flowers with sepals 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