Caryophylleae

Saponaria bellidifolia

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Caryophyllales

Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Orthokaryota Cladus: Neokaryota Cladus: Photokaryota Cladus: Diaphoretickes Cladus: CAM Regnum*: Archaeplastida Regnum: Plantae Regnum*: Viridiplantae Cladus: Streptophyta Cladus: Phragmoplastophyta Cladus: Embryophyta Cladus: Polysporangiophyta Divisio*: Tracheophyta Cladus: Eutracheophyta Cladus: Euphyllophytina Cladus: Megaphylla Cladus: Radiatopses Cladus: Lignophyta Cladus: Metalignophyta Diviso*: Spermatophyta Classis*: Angiospermae Cladus: Mesangiospermae Cladus: Eudicota Cladus: Core eudicots Ordo: Caryophyllales

Familia: Caryophyllaceae
Tribus: Caryophylleae
Genera: Acanthophyllum – Ankyropetalum – Balkana – Bolanthus – Cyathophylla – Dianthus – Gypsophila – Heterochroa – Jordania – Petroana – Petrorhagia – Psammophiliella – Psammosilene – Saponaria – Yazdana

Name

Caryophylleae Lam. & DC., Syn. Pl. Fl. Gall.: 386. (1806).

• Type genus: Caryophyllus Mill., (1754) nom. illeg. non L., (1753) ≡ Dianthus L., (1753)
  

Note: The above circumscription builds on work reported in Madhani et al. (2018) and Pirani et al. (2020) and many combinations are available for use in their treatments. However, that is not always the case and in addition, not all authorities are using their synonymy and generic circumscriptions, where there is consensus changes are being made.

References

Primary references

• Lamarck Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de & Candolle, A.P. de 1806. Synopsis Plantarum in Flora Gallica Descriptarum. Paris 386.

Additional references

• Greenberg, A.K. & Donoghue, M.J. 2011. Molecular systematics and character evolution in Caryophyllaceae. Taxon 60(6): 1637–1652. DOI: 10.1002/tax.606009 JSTOR PDF Reference page. .
• Harbaugh, D.T., Nepokroeff, M., Rabeler, R.K., McNeill, J., Zimmer, E.A. & Wagner, W.L. 2010. A new lineage based tribal classification of the family Caryophyllaceae. International Journal of Plant Sciences 171(2): 185–198. DOI: 10.1086/648993 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Hernández-Ledesma, P., Berendsohn, W. G., Borsch, T., Mering, S. v., Akhani, H., Arias, S., Castañeda-Noa, I., Eggli, U., Eriksson, R., Flores-Olvera, H., Fuentes-Bazán, S., Kadereit, G., Klak, C., Korotkova, N., Nyffeler R., Ocampo G., Ochoterena, H., Oxelman, B., Rabeler, R. K., Sanchez, A., Schlumpberger, B. O. & Uotila, P. 2015. A taxonomic backbone for the global synthesis of species diversity in the angiosperm order Caryophyllales. Willdenowia 45(3): 281–383. DOI: 10.3372/wi.45.45301 Reference page. 
• Madhani, H., Rabeler, R.K., Pirani, A., Oxelman, B., Heubl, G. & Zarre, S. 2018. Untangling phylogenetic patterns and taxonomic confusion in tribe Caryophylleae (Caryophyllaceae) with special focus on generic boundaries. Taxon 67(1): 83–112. DOI: 10.12705/671.6 PDF Reference page. 
• Oxelman, B., Lidén, M., Rabeler, R.K. & Popp, M. 2000. A revised generic classification of the tribe Sileneae (Caryophyllaceae). Nordic Journal of Botany 20(6): 743–748. DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-1051.2000.tb00760.x PDF ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Pirani, A., Zarre, S., Pfeil, B.E., Bertrand, Y.J., Assadi, M. & Oxelman, B. 2014. Molecular phylogeny of Acanthophyllum (Caryophyllaceae: Caryophylleae), with emphasis on infrageneric classification. Taxon 63(3): 592–607. DOI: 10.12705/633.39 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Pirani, A., Moazzeni, H., Zarre, S., Rabeler, R.K., Oxelman, B., Pavlenko, A.V. & Kovalchuk, A. 2020. Phylogeny of Acanthophyllum sl revisited: An update on generic concept and sectional classification. Taxon 69(3): 500–514. DOI: 10.1002/tax.12241 Reference page. 

Links

• International Plant Names Index. 2026. Caryophylleae. Published online. Accessed: Aug. 4 2026. Reference page.

Vernacular names

• العربية: قرنفلاوية
• 日本語: ナデシコ連
• русский: Гвоздичные

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