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Commelinaceae
Commelinaceae
Translingual
Proper noun
Commelinaceae
- A taxonomic family within the order Commelinales – spiderworts or dayflowers.
Hypernyms
- (family): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, monocots, commelinids - clades; Commelinales - order
Hyponyms
- (family): Cartonema, Triceratella - genera in subfamily Cartonematoideae; Aetheolirion, Amischotolype, Aneilema, Anthericopsis, Belosynapsis, Buforrestia, Callisia, , Cochliostema, Coleotrype, Commelina, Cyanotis, Dichorisandra, Dictyospermum, Elasis, Floscopa, Geogenanthus, Gibasis, Gibasoides, Matudanthus, Murdannia, Palisota, Plowmanianthus, Pollia, Polyspatha, Porandra, Pseudoparis, Rhopalephora, Sauvallea, Siderasis, Spatholirion, Stanfieldiella, Streptolirion, Tapheocarpa, Thyrsanthemum, Tinantia, Tradescantia (spiderworts), Tricarpelema, Tripogandra, Weldenia - genera in subfamily Commelinoideae