Caryophyllidae

Caryophyllidae is a botanical name that is ranked a subclass. At the moment, there is no actual consensus about with orders it includes, with the exception of Caryophyllales, which is presumably included. Note that this is only a naming difficulty: what to call various taxa of plants; there is a debate about how the plants in question are related to each other.

The Cronquist system used this name in the 1981 version. The circumscription of this subclass was:


 * subclass Caryophyllidae
 * order Caryophyllales
 * order Polygonales
 * order Plumbaginales

These plants were eventually placed into the Caryophyllales order in the APG II system of 2003.