dicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination

Gentianales, order Gentianales - an order of dicotyledonous plants having gamopetalous flowers; Gentianaceae; Apocynaceae; Asclepiadaceae; Loganiaceae; Oleaceae; Salvadoraceae

Centaurium, genus Centaurium - genus of low-growing herbs mostly of northern hemisphere having flowers with protruding spirally twisted anthers

Eustoma, genus Eustoma - small genus of herbs of warm regions of southern North America to northern South America

Exacum, genus Exacum - genus of tropical Asiatic and African plants: especially Persian violets

Frasera, genus Frasera - genus of North American herbs: columbo; includes some species sometimes placed in genus Swertia

Gentiana, genus Gentiana - type genus of the Gentianaceae; cosmopolitan genus of herbs nearly cosmopolitan in cool temperate regions; in some classifications includes genera Gentianopsis and Gentianella

gentian - any of various plants of the family Gentianaceae especially the genera Gentiana and Gentianella and Gentianopsis

Gentianella, genus Gentianella - genus of herbs with flowers that resemble gentian; in some classifications included in genus Gentiana

Gentianopsis, genus Gentianopsis - genus of fringed gentians; in some classifications included in genus Gentiana

genus Halenia, Halenia - genus of herbs of Eurasia and the Americas: spurred gentians

genus Sabbatia - genus of smooth slender North American herbs with showy flowers

genus Swertia, Swertia - genus of herbs of mountains of North America and Eurasia and Africa