Learn about the comparison between Musaceae and Orchidaceae. Comparison # Musaceae: 1. Habit-Usually perennial herbs or rarely trees (Ravenala). 2. Roots-Adventitious. 3. Stem-Underground rhizome. In Musa, the so-called apparent erect stem is formed by long, stiff leaf-sheaths which are spirally rolled around one another. 4. Leaves-Simple, large, spiral, unicostate parallel, entire or lamina split, leaf- sheaths rolled up and overlapping. [...]
Learn about the comparison between Liliaceae and Musaceae. Comparison # Liliaceae: 1. Habit-Generally perennial herbs, rarely shrubs or trees and occasionally climber (Smilax). 2. Root-Adventitious, fibrous, sometime tuberous (Asparagus). 3. Stem-Herbaceous or woody aerial or underground (rhizome or bulbs) aerial, erect or climbing; in Ruscus and Asparagus, branches modified into leaf-like phylloclades. 4. Leaf-Radical or cauline, simple, sessile, sheathing leaf-base, [...]
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 [...]