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The Dipsacaceae, or teasel family, of the order Dipsacales
Dipsacales

The Dipsacales are an order of flowering plants, included within the asterid group of dicotyledons.Under the Cronquist system, the order included Adoxaceae, Caprifoliaceae, Dipsacaceae, and Valerianaceae....
 contains 350 species of perennial or biennial herb
Herb

A herb is a plant that is valued for qualities such as medicinal properties, flavor, scent, or the like....
s and shrub
Shrub

A shrub or bush is a horticulture rather than strictly Botany category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 5-6 m tall....
s in eleven genera. Native to most temperate climates, they are found in Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
, Asia
Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
 and Africa
Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
. Some species of this family have been naturalized in other places.

The family has contained the following genera.






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The Dipsacaceae, or teasel family, of the order Dipsacales
Dipsacales

The Dipsacales are an order of flowering plants, included within the asterid group of dicotyledons.Under the Cronquist system, the order included Adoxaceae, Caprifoliaceae, Dipsacaceae, and Valerianaceae....
 contains 350 species of perennial or biennial herb
Herb

A herb is a plant that is valued for qualities such as medicinal properties, flavor, scent, or the like....
s and shrub
Shrub

A shrub or bush is a horticulture rather than strictly Botany category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 5-6 m tall....
s in eleven genera. Native to most temperate climates, they are found in Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
, Asia
Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
 and Africa
Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
. Some species of this family have been naturalized in other places.

The family has contained the following genera.
  • Acanthocalyx
    Acanthocalyx

    Acanthocalyx is a genus of about three species in the family Dipsacaceae, sometimes included in Morinaceae, native to China-HimalayasRegion....
  • Dipsacus
    Dipsacus

    Dipsacus is a genus of flowering plant in the family Dipsacaceae. The members of this genus are known as teasel or teazel or teazle....
     (teasel)
  • Knautia
    Knautia

    Knautia is a genus in the family Dipsacaceae. The common names of these flowers are a variant of "widow flower." Others are given the name "Scabious," although this word belongs to a related genus ....
  • Scabiosa
    Scabiosa

    Scabiosa is a genus in the teasel Family Dipsacaceae of flowering plants. Many of the species in this genus have common names that include the word scabious; however some plants commonly known as scabious are currently classified in related genera such as Knautia and Succisa; at least some of these were formerly placed in '...
  • Succisa
    Succisa

    Succisa is a genus of flowering plants in the Dipsacaceae Family .Species include the Devil's bit, Succisa pratensis....
     (devil's bit)
  • Succisella
    Succisella

    Succisella is a genus of flowering plant in the Family Dipsacaceae.Species include:* S. inflexa - Southern succisella...
  • Morina
    Morina

    Morina is a genus of the Dipsacaceae family.Species* Morina longifolia...
     -- also placed in its own family, Morinaceae
    Morinaceae

    Morinaceae is a family of plants in the order Dipsacales. The Genus Morina has also been included in family Dipsacaceae. Currently three genera are listed in this family:...
    .
  • Cephalaria
    Cephalaria

    Cephalaria is a genus of about 65 species of flowering plants in the family Dipsacaceae, native to southern Europe, western and central Asia, and northern and southern Africa....
  • Pterocephalus
    Pterocephalus

    Pterocephalus is a genus in the Dipsacaceae family of herbs and shrubs....
  • Callistemma
  • Pycnocomon
  • Triplostegia