Commelinaceae Mirb.
Details
Commelinaceae Mirb.
Commelinaceae Mirb.
Nomenclature
Mirb.
Mirb.
ICN
Commelinaceae Mirb.
family
Commelinaceae
Classification
Subordinates
Descriptions
Commelinaceae Mirb.
Annual or perennial herbs, usually ± succulent, glabrous, rarely hairy. Stems erect or prostrate, long and many-noded or almost 0. Leaves alternate, entire, with basal, membranous, closed sheath. Flowers bisexual, usually actinomorphic, usually in terminal simple or compound cymes or panicles, sometimes in axillary clusters, rarely solitary; sepals 3, green, herbaceous, usually free; petals 3, coloured or white, equal or unequal, free or rarely united in a tube, ± ephemeral or deciduous. Stamens usually 6, occasionally 3, rarely 1, fertile and remainder reduced to staminodia. Ovary superior, 3-(2)-locular; ovules few to solitary in each locule; style simple; stigma capitate or rarely 3-fid. Fruit a loculicidal 2-3-celled capsule occasionally enclosed by fleshy sepals, rarely fruit fleshy and indehiscent. Seeds few to many. About 40 genera, mainly of tropical and subtropical regions.
Taxonomic concepts
Commelinaceae Mirb.
Commelinaceae Mirb.
Commelinaceae Mirb.
Metadata
23ad8e52-46c2-4227-8d78-54fbf72d3f9a
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
4 August 2011