Calyciflorae

Calyciflorae is a grouping of plants that is no longer used by botanists. Augustin Pyramus de Candolle defined it as a subclass within the class Dicotyledoneae.[1] 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.[1]
Myroxylon balsamum, a member of the family Fabaceae

See also

References
  1. Augustin Pyramus de Candolle (1825), Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis, vol. 2


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