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Caryophyllaceae (carnation)
Taxonomy
Caryophyllaceae was named by Jussieu (1789). It is extant.
It was assigned to Centrospermae by Chandler (1963); and to Caryophyllales by Berchtold and Presl (1820), Mabberley (2000) and The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2016).
It was assigned to Centrospermae by Chandler (1963); and to Caryophyllales by Berchtold and Presl (1820), Mabberley (2000) and The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2016).
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1789 | Caryophyllaceae Jussieu p. 299 |
| 1820 | Caryophyllaceae Berchtold and Presl p. 239 |
| 1963 | Caryophyllaceae Chandler p. 78 |
| 2000 | Caryophyllaceae Mabberley |
| 2016 | Caryophyllaceae The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group p. 18 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
Fm. Caryophyllaceae Jussieu 1789 [carnation]
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G. †Caryophylloflora Jordan and Macphail 2003
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†Caryophylloflora paleogenica Jordan and Macphail 2003
G. †Centrospermocarpon Sheikh and Khubalkar 1982
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†Centrospermocarpon chitaleyi Sheikh and Khubalkar 1982
G. Cerastium Linnaeus 1753 [chickweed]
G. Dianthus Linnaeus 1753
G. †Gypsophila Linnaeus 1753
G. Spergula Linnaeus 1753 [spurrey]
G. Stellaria Linnaeus 1753
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Stellaria media Linnaeus 1753
Stellaria petiolaris von Handel-Mazzetti 1940
Invalid names: Alsinaceae [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
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Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Early/Lower Eocene to the top of the Holocene or 55.80000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 48.6 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 48.6 Ma
Collections (70 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Paleogene | India (Madhya Pradesh) | Centrospermocarpon chitaleyi, Dianthus sp. (224606) | |
| Early/Lower Eocene | India (Meghalaya) | Caryophyllaceaepites eocenica (224747) | |
| Middle Eocene - Late/Upper Eocene | Australia (Tasmania) | Caryophylloflora paleogenica (31570) | |
| Miocene | Japan (Aichi) | Stellaria sp. (22820) | |
| Tortonian - Messinian | Germany (North Rhine) | Stellaria media (28046) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene - Early/Lower Pliocene | France (Elsass) | Stellaria holostea (21222) | |
| Late/Upper Hemphillian - Blancan | USA (Tennessee) | Caryophyllaceae indet. (26574) | |
| Pliocene | Portugal | Caryophyllaceae indet. (232121 232125) | |
| Pliocene | USA (Massachusetts) | Caryophyllaceae indet. (231796) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | China (Yunnan) | Cucubalus prebaccifer (224540) Stellaria media, Stellaria petiolaris (224476) | |
| Late/Upper Pliocene | Russian Federation (Omsk) | Stellaria aquatica (24096) | |
| Piacenzian | Germany (Thuringia) | Gypsophila semisphaerica (22778) Stellaria holostea (22779) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene | Australia (Victoria) | Caryophyllaceae indet. (172832 172833 172868 172870 172873 172874 172875 172876 172877 172881 172882 172883 172884) | |
| Early/Lower Pleistocene - Middle Pleistocene | Australia (Tasmania) | Stellaria sp. (166707) | |
| Pleistocene | India (Jammu and Kashmir) | Caryophyllaceae indet. (228772 228956) | |
| Pleistocene | Greenland | Cerastium arcticum (227055) | |
| Pleistocene | India (Jammu & Kashmir) | Caryophyllaceae indet. (225945) | |
| Pleistocene | India (West Bengal) | Caryophyllaceae indet. (224677 228819) | |
| Pleistocene | India (Kashmir) | Caryophyllaceae indet. (224613 224614 224715) | |
| Pleistocene | Australia (Queensland) | Caryophyllaceae indet. (168918) | |
| Quaternary | India (West Bengal) | Caryophyllaceae indet. (228793 228795 228821) | |
| Quaternary | India (Gujarat) | Caryophyllaceae indet. (228786) | |
| Quaternary | India (Rajasthan) | Spergula rubra (228785) | |
| Quaternary | India (Assam) | Stellaria sp. (228813 228814 228815 228817) | |
| Quaternary | India (Tamil Nadu) | Caryophyllaceae indet. (228792 228848 228849) | |
| Quaternary | India (Himachal Pradesh) | Caryophyllaceae indet. (228760 228761 228776) | |
| Quaternary | India (Maharashtra) | Caryophyllaceae indet. (228787) | |
| Quaternary | India (Uttarakhand) | Caryophyllaceae indet. (228809) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | Italy | Caryophyllaceae indet. (38321) | |
| Middle Pleistocene | India (Jammu and Kashmir) | Caryophyllaceae indet. (228782) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | United Kingdom (Worcestershire) | Caryophyllaceae indet., Dianthus carthusianorum (163075) Caryophyllaceae indet., Dianthus carthusianorum, Cerastium arvense (163070) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene (late glacial) | USA (Washington) | Caryophyllaceae indet. (93677) | |
| Holocene | India (Uttar Pradesh) | Caryophyllaceae indet. (228820) | |
| Holocene | Argentina (Buenos Aires) | Caryophyllaceae sp. (136951) | |
| Holocene | India (Uttarakhand) | Caryophyllaceae indet., Cerastium sp. (228763) Caryophyllaceae indet., Cerastium sp., Spergula sp. (228762) | |
| Holocene | India (Jammu and Kashmir) | Caryophyllaceae indet. (228783) | |
| Holocene | India (Himachal Pradesh) | Caryophyllaceae indet. (228780 228781) | |
| Holocene | India (Tamil Nadu) | Caryophyllaceae indet. (228788) | |
| Holocene | India (Gujarat) | Caryophyllaceae indet. (228791) |