Calyptocarpus
Encyclopedia
Calyptocarpus is a genus
of flowering plants in the daisy family, Asteraceae
. The name is derived from the Greek
words καλυπτος (kalyptos), meaning "covered," and καρπος (karpos), meaning "fruit."
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of flowering plants in the daisy family, Asteraceae
Asteraceae
The Asteraceae or Compositae , is an exceedingly large and widespread family of vascular plants. The group has more than 22,750 currently accepted species, spread across 1620 genera and 12 subfamilies...
. The name is derived from the Greek
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek is the stage of the Greek language in the periods spanning the times c. 9th–6th centuries BC, , c. 5th–4th centuries BC , and the c. 3rd century BC – 6th century AD of ancient Greece and the ancient world; being predated in the 2nd millennium BC by Mycenaean Greek...
words καλυπτος (kalyptos), meaning "covered," and καρπος (karpos), meaning "fruit."