Learn about the comparison between Araceae and Musaceae. Comparison # Araceae: 1. Habit-Usually perennial hebrs, or woody, tree-like erect prostrate or climbing sap acrid or milky. 2. Roots-Adventitious, aerial or epiphytic in climbing plants. 3. Stem-Underground, tubers or corms. 4. Leaf- Radical or cauline, and alternate, simple or compound, parallel-vined (Acorus) or reticulate (Arisaema) long-petioled, cordate, sagittate or hastate, entire [...]
Learn about the comparison between Musaceae and Zingiberaceae. Comparison # Musaceae: 1. Flower-May be unisexual, bisexual or zygomorphic. 2. Perianth-6, in two whorls or not distinct, petaloid. 3. Stamens-6, 5, only fertile, the sixth, sterile one not distinguishable as a petaloid staminode. 4. Carpel-Carpels— (3); ovary trillocular, ∞ ovules, placentation axile. 5. Style-Simple. 6. Stigma-Lobed or capitate. 7. Fruit-Berry or [...]
In this article we will discuss about:- 1. Characters of Cyperaceae 2. Distribution of Cyperaceae 3. Economic Importance 4. Affinities 5. Important Type. Characters of Cyperaceae: Plants usually herbs with 3 angled stem, solid culm; leaves with entire sheathing base not split on one side; flowers in spikelets of cymes, subtended by a single glume, naked or with perianth of [...]