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endosperm, and, in general, the epiphytic habit, are distinctive. There are few families more easily recognized than this. The most important economic species is...

reproductive parts of plants belonging to the angiosperm branch of the plant family. All flowers share similar underlying features allowing them to produce...

number of individuals, the grasses excel any other family. Seed plants are arranged in 200 to 220 families, and of all these the true grasses are of greatest...

1998, recognized both the families Schisandraceae sensu stricto and Illiciaceae, unplaced as to order. It regarded both families as being among the most...

included under this name comprise an entire order, made up of several distinct families. They include plants varying in size from a hair- like creeping stem bearing...

Selected Plant Families. Retrieved on 2007-09-08. "Bactris major var. major". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Retrieved...

been transferred to other families within the Lamiales, notably Plantaginaceae and Orobanchaceae but also several new families (Olmstead et al., 2001; Olmstead...

because their behavior is similar to cuckoo birds, occur in several bee families, though the name is technically best applied to the apid subfamily Nomadinae...

laurel, Laurus nobilis (Lauraceae). However, the two plants are in different families and are unrelated. Prunus laurocerasus has been widely planted as an ornamental...

sometimes erroneously called spathe (spathe is a typical form in some other families such as Araceae and Arecaceae). The flowers have similarly shaped sepals...

species of fern in the family Lomariopsidaceae (sometimes treated in the families Davalliaceae or Oleandraceae, or in its own family, Nephrolepidaceae), native...

Alismatales), that also includes aroids (Araceae), Tofieldiaceae, and several families of aquatic monocots (e.g., Alismataceae, Posidoniaceae). Common names include...

Cactus or cacti. The plants correctly designated by this name constitute the family Cactaceae. Scarcely any group in the whole plant kingdom is more remarkable...

identify a compound leaf. Compound leaves are a characteristic of some families of higher plants, such as the Fabaceae. The middle vein of a compound leaf...

placed the genus in the family Asphodelaceae. In the past it has also been assigned to families Aloaceae and Liliaceae or lilly family. Members of the closely...

Solanaceae {{{latin_name}}}  Nightshade Family...

Guttiferae Juss. (1789) (nom. alt. et cons. = alternative and valid name) is a family of plants including about 50 genera and 1200 species of trees and shrubs...

is a large family of mainly Southern Hemisphere conifers, with 18-19 genera and about 170-200 species of evergreen trees and shrubs. The family is a classic...

comprise 20% of the vegetation cover of the earth. This family is the most important of all plant families to human economies: it includes the staple food grains...

known as the mint family. Labiatae (the name refers to the 2-lipped [bilabiate] character of the corolla of most species). Mint Family. Herbs or shrubs...