Group Centrospermae (Noun)
Meaning
Used in former classification systems; approximately synonymous with order Caryophyllales.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Group Centrospermae was used as an order in several former classification systems of flowering plants roughly equivalent to modern order Caryophyllales.
- The term group Centrospermae is no longer used in modern plant taxonomy and has largely been replaced by the order Caryophyllales.
- Some authors used the term group Centrospermae to describe a group of flowering plants now classified as the order Caryophyllales.
- In the past, the group Centrospermae referred to a grouping of plants that shared a central seed location in their fruits, now understood as a characteristic of the order Caryophyllales.
- Group Centrospermae, a concept that has been widely replaced, was once used to categorize plant families now placed in the order Caryophyllales.