Caryophyllaceae

family of plants
Taxon taxon Q25995
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Summary

Caryophyllaceae is a taxon[1]. Caryophyllaceae ranks in the top 0.74% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,214 views/month, #1,437 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: family[3]
  • Parent taxon: Centrospermae[4], Caryophyllales[5], Caryophyllineae[6]
  • Taxon name: Caryophyllaceae[7]
  • Commons category: Caryophyllaceae[8]
  • Taxonomic type: Caryophyllus[9]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Caryophyllaceae[10]
  • Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[11], Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 26[12], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[13]
  • GRIN URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomyfamily.aspx?id=222[14]
  • Taxon common name: Anjerfamilie[15], 석죽과[16], 石竹科[17], klinčnice[18], гвоздикові[19], goździkowate[20]
  • Has fruit type: capsule[21], berry[22]

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Identifiers

Caryophyllaceae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 48567[23]. Caryophyllaceae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 3568[24]. Caryophyllaceae's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 4229[25]. Caryophyllaceae's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 2518[26]. Caryophyllaceae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 19942[27].

Why It Matters

Caryophyllaceae has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] Caryophyllaceae is known by 68 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Handbuch der Systematischen Botanik. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Summary of recent systems of angiosperm classification. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [24] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [27] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [25] ↑ . Encyclopedia of Life. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [26] ↑ . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . GRIN Taxonomy for Plants. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] ↑ . Nederlands Soortenregister. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] ↑ . Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 26. wikidata.org.
  20. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 9w ago · SLuecke · 2026-08-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Verbaalpina id → C6468
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  2. 9w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 11825073-n
    Interlingual index id → i99328
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  3. 14w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14541 → 4YITNz
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  4. 16w ago · Ambrosia10 · 2026-06-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 26, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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