geraniales: significado e definições

A large order of dicotyledonous, chiefly choripetalous, plants, characterized by flowers with distinct petals and sepals, the stamens usually as many as the sepals and opposite them, and a superior compound ovary. The order embraces 20 families, of which the most important are the Geraniaceæ, Oxalidaceæ, Linaeeæ, Rutaceæ, Balsameaceæ, and Euphorbiaceæ.