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The Zygophyllaceae, of about 250 species, are a family of flowering plants, also known as the bean-caper or caltrop family. Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group Magnoliopsida is the Botanical name for a class of Flowering plants By definition the class will include the family Magnoliaceae, but its The Zygophyllales are an order of Dicotyledon Plants comprising the following two families Family Zygophyllaceae Robert Brown FRS ( 21 December, 1773 &ndash 10 June, 1858) was a Scottish scientist who is acknowledged as the leading botanist In Biological classification, family ( Latin The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group A caltrop (also known as Caltrap, galtrop,or in Japanese: Makibishi or Tetsubishi.
According to the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG II), the heterogeneous family Zygophyllaceae is unplaced to order, but included in the Eurosids I as a sister to a clade composed of several orders. The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, or APG, refers to two international groups of systematic botanists who came together to try to establish a consensus view of the In the APG II system for the classification of the Angiosperms the name rosids refers to a Clade, meaning a Monophyletic group of plants A clade is a taxonomic group comprising a single Common ancestor and all the descendants of that ancestor The name Zygophyllales can be used if one finds it appropriate to place the family Zygophyllaceae into an order.