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How many plant families and species are included in the order Caryophyllales?
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Caryophyllales
Pink carnation flowers (Dianthus caryophyllus).
The order Caryophyllales comprises 37 families, which collectively contain approximately 12,000 species distributed across 722 genera.1
Nearly half of these families are relatively small, each containing fewer than a dozen species.1