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, [...]
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 [...]