Characteristics and economic importance of Liliaceae (Lily family)
1. Diagnostic features Mostly perennial herbs, small shrubs or sometimes climbers. Stem usually modified into bulbs, corms or rhizomes. Leaves radical or cauline, alternate or whorled. Inflorescence racemose, borne on long leafless scape. Flower small, bracteates bisexual, actinomorphic, hypogynous, trimerous. Tepal-6 in two whorls. Stamens 6 in two whorls, polyandrous, epipetalous. Gynoecium tricarpellary, syncarpous, trilocular, … Read more
