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ACANTHACEAE
Acanthaceae- Gamopetalae Mostly herbs, shrubs; leaves opposite decussate, exstipulate, inflorescence cymose, flowers bracteate, bracteolate, zygomorphic, hermaphrodite, hypogynous; calyx five or 4 gamosepalous, ...
AMARANTHACEAE
Amaranthaceae: Monocotyledons Members of the family can be annuals or perennials and commonly grow in saline soils. The simple leaves are sometimes succulent or hairy and are usually arranged ...
AMARYLLIDACEAE
Amaryllidaceae: Monocotyledons Members of the family have bulbs or underground stems, several strap- or lance-shaped leaves grouped at the base of the stem or arranged alternately along the stem, flowers usually with ...
ANNONACEAE
Anonaceae: Polypetalae Annonaceae is a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the custard apple family. Most members of the Annonaceae family are evergreen trees or shrubs.Leaves are typically simple, ...
ASCLEPIADACEAE
Asclepiadaceae: Gamopetalae Plants herbs, shrubs, mostly twiners and rarely trees; leaves opposite, simple, entire margin rarely alternate; inflorescence cymose or racemose; flowers hermaphrodite, pentamerous; ...
ASTERACEAE
Asteraceae : Gamopetalae The Asteraceae family, commonly known as the daisy, sunflower, or aster family, is one of the largest and most diverse families of flowering plants. The Asteraceae family is a ...
BEGONIACEAE
Begoniaceae: Gamopetalae The Begoniaceae family consists of 3 genera and 1000 species of semi-succulent dicotyledonous perennial herbs with pantropic (distributed throughout the world in tropical regions) ...
BIGNONIACEAE
Bignoniaceae: Gamopetalae Plant predominently lianous, compound leaves, zygomorphic flowers, anthers connivent in pairs; numberous ovule, silique-like woody capsule, large winged seed and non-endospermic.
BORAGINACEAE
Boraginaceae: Gamopetalae The leaves are usually arranged alternately, are usually simple, and often have entire (untoothed) margins. The flowers are arranged in a helicoid cyme, an array that beings coiled up like a ...
BRASSICACEAE
Brassicaceae: Polypetalae Brassicaceae also known as the mustards, the crucifers, or the cabbage family, in the order of Brassicales, are the dicotyledonous-flowering plants, containing about 372 genera and approximately ...
CAPPARACEAE
Capparaceae : Polypetalae Capparaceae comprise a great variety of woody and herbaceous life forms. The Capparaceae family is commonly recognized as a caper, a family of plants in the order Brassicales. As currently ...
CARYOPHYLLACEAE
Caryophyllaceae : Polypetalae Caryophyllaceae also known as the pink or carnation family, is a family of flowering plants that includes about 2,500 species in 88 genera. They are found worldwide, with the highest ...
CASUARINACEAE
Casuarinaceae: Monochlamydeae Monoecious or dioecious trees or shrubs. Branchlets slender, jointed and striate. Leaves reduced to whorls of small scales, united at base, forming many-toothed sheaths at the nodes; ...
COMBRETACEAE
Combretaceae: Polypetalae The Combretaceae are trees, shrubs, and lianas comprising about 20 genera and 600 species. The leaves are simple, alternate or opposite, entire; stipules small or absent. The flowers ...
COMMELINACEAE
Commelinaceae: Monocotyledons Commelinaceae are distinctive in being mostly perennial herbs with closed sheathed leaves and a trimerous, hypogynous flower with an ephemeral corolla, staminodia in some, most species with ...
CONVOLVULACEAE
Convolvulaceae : Gamopetalae Convolvulaceae also known as the bindweed or morning glory family, in the order of Solanales, is a family of dicotyledonous flowering plants, consisting of about 60 genera with ...
CUCURBITACEAE
Cucurbitaceae: Polypetalae Prostrate herb bearing tendrils; leaves palmately lobed, surface hispid; flowers pentamerous, unisexual, monoecious or less commonly dioecious; stamens five, usually less, anthers free or ...
DIOSCOREACEAE
Dioscoreaceae :Monocotyledons Yam family of the flowering plant order Dioscoreales, consisting of 4 genera and 870 species of herbaceous or woody vines and shrubs, distributed throughout tropical and warm temperate ...
DIPTEROCARPACEAE
Dipterocarpaceae : Polypetalae Dipterocarpaceae is a family of flowering plants with 22 genera and about 695 known species of mainly lowland tropical forest trees .The species of this family are of major ...
DROSERACEAE
Droseraceae : Polypetalae Perennial or annual carnivorous herbs, sometimes (Aldrovanda) submerged aquatics. Primary root often suppressed; stembase with adventitious roots, sometimes with corms or root tubers. Leaves ...
ERIOCAULACEAE
Eriocaulaceae: Monocotyledons Pipeworts are perennial wetland herbs with grass-like, tapering leaves that have parallel veins and conspicuous cross-veinlets. The roots also have conspicuous ...
GENTIANACEAE
Gentianaceae: Gamopetalae Plants herbs or sub-shrubs, branching dichotomous, leaves opposite, decussate, exstipulate; monochasial or dichasial cyme; flower actinomorphic hermaphrodite, hypogynous; calyx and corolla 4-5, ...
LECYTHIDACEAE
Lecythidaceae : Polypetalae It is a family of flowering trees that belongs to the order Ericales. Lecythidaceae is a family of flowering trees found primarily in tropical regions .Within Lecythidaceae, there are four ...
LENTIBULARIACEAE
Lentibulariaceae: Gamopetalae Lentibulariaceae are herbaceous, terrestrial, epiphytic or aquatic carnivorous plants. The leaves can be alternate, scattered on stolons or whorled in rosettes, entire or divided, ...
LOGANIACEAE
Loganiaceae: Gamopetalae Trees, shrubs, woody climbers, or herbs, sometimes epiphytic, sometimes with axillary spines or tendrils. Leaves opposite, occasionally alternate, rarely verticillate, fasciculate, or in a whorl; ...
LORANTHACEAE
Loranthaceae: Monochlamydeae Distinctive features: Parasitic vines; leaves opposite, decussate; inflorescence solitary or fasciculate spikes or racemes, sometimes a laxly branched panicle; flowers usually bisexual, in ...
LYTHRACEAE
Lythraceae : Polypetalae The Lythraceae family, also known as the loosestrife family. Lythraceae family is found in temperate and tropical regions, mainly in wet habitats. The petals being crumpled in the bud and the ...
MAGNOLIACEAE
Magnoliacaeae : Polypetalae Magnoliacaeae family consist of trees, shrubs, or woody vines (lianas) The leaves are usually distichous, simple, and exstipulate The inflorescence is a solitary flower or cyme. The flowers ...
MALPIGHIACEAE
Malpighiaceae : Polypetalae It is a family of flowering plants commonly known as the Malpighia family.Plants are typically trees or shrubs, but some species can be woody vines or herbaceous plants .The leaves are ...
MELASTOMATACEAE
Melastomataceae : Polypetalae This large, pantropical family is particularly well represented in tropical South America. In Australia the family is restricted to the tropical north and east, extending south to northern ...
MENISPERMACEAE
Menispermaceae: Polypetalae Mostly woody vines – lianas, dioecious; flowers trimerous, unisexual; double whorls of sepals and petals; curved seed.
MYRSINACEAE
Myrsinaceae : Gamopetalae Annual, perennial herb, [shrub, tree], glabrous or occasionally hairy, sometimes glandular, resin canals sometimes obvious as dark dots or streaks on stems, leaves, flowers, or fruits. Leaf are ...
NYCTAGINACEAE
Nyctaginaceae: Monochlamydeae Flowers open in late afternoon; flowers mostly hermaphrodite rarely diclinous, actinomorphic, usually subtended by an involucre of separate or united brightly coloured bracts or sepaloid ...
NYMPHAEACEAE
Nymphaeaceae : Polypetalae It is a family of flowering plants, commonly called water lilies. They live as rhizomatous aquatic herbs in temperate and tropical climates around the world. The family contains five genera ...
ONAGRACEAE
Onagraceae : Polypetalae The Onagraceae are a family of flowering plants known as the willowherb family or evening primrose family. They include about 650 species of herbs, shrubs and ...
ORCHIDACEAE
Orchidaceae : Monocotyledons It is the largest and most evolved family of the flowering plants comprises 25,000 to 35,000 species under 750 to 850 genera [1–3]. They are virtually found in all regions around ...
OXALIDACEAE
Oxalidaceae : Polypetalae It is a wood sorrel family, are a small family of five genera of herbaceous plants, shrubs and small trees, with the great majority of the 570 species in the genus Oxalis (wood sorrels). ...
PANDANACEAE
Pandanaceae : Monocotyledons Pandanaceae includes trees, shrubs, lianas, vines, epiphytes, and perennial herbs. Stems may be simple or bifurcately branched, and may have aerial prop roots. The stems bear ...
PEDALIACEAE
Pedaliaceae: Gamopetalae Herbs with opposite leaves, and mucilage containing glandular hairs; flowers zygomorphic, hoypogynous; calyx and corolla 5, fused, corolla bilabiate; stemens 4, epipetalous, sometimes 2; carpels ...
PIPERACEAE
Piperaceae: Monochlamydeae The leaves of Piperaceae, which have a pungent flavour, grow singly. The numerous flowers, lacking sepals and petals, are crowded in dense spikes. Piper species are mostly shrubs, woody vines, ...
PLUMBAGINACEAE
Plumbaginaceae : Polypetalae It is also known as the leadwort or plumbago family, is a family of flowering plants that includes about 320 species in 24 genera. They are found worldwide, with the highest diversity in the ...
POLYGONACEAE
Polygonaceae: Monochlamydeae Mostly herb, climbing, leaves stipulate ochrea intrapetiolar, sheathing, swollen nodes; racemose, flowers small, crowded, di-trimerous, hypogynous, hermaphrodite, polyphyllous in two whorls; ...
PONTEDERIACEAE
Pontederiaceae : Monocotyledons Plants floating aquati herbs, leaves 1/2 alternate, with spongy inflated petiole; flowers hermaphrodite, hypogynous, zygomorphic; perianth petaloid, connate; stamens 6(3 + 3); carpels 3, ...
PORTULACACEAE
Portulacaceae: Polypetalae It is also known as purslane family, in the order of Caryophyllales, is a family of Dicotyledoneae flowering plants, only containing the genus Portulaca Linn. according to the APG system, with ...
RHAMNACEAE
Rhamnaceae : Polypetalae The Rhamnaceae are distinctive in being trees, shrubs, lianas, or rarely herbs with simple, spiral or opposite leaves, unisexual or bisexual, perigynous to epiperigynous flowers, the ...
RHIZOPHORACEAE
Rhizophoraceae : Polypetalae The Rhizophoraceae is a family of tropical and subtropical flowering plants. It includes around 147 species distributed in 15 genera. Under the family, there are three tribes, ...
SANTALACEAE
Santalaceae: Monochlamydeae Plants mostly semi-parasites, flowers tetra or pentamerous; 3-5 carpellate, ovary unilocular, single basal ovule with integument reduced to one or absent and the seed without a seed-coat.
SAPOTACEAE
Sapotaceae: Gamopetalae Trees and shrubs with laticiferous vessels; Leaves, flowers and fruits often clothed with hairs; flower hermaphrodite, hypogynous, actinomorphic; sepals 2-8 in two isomerous whorls or 5 in one ...
SCROPHULARIACEAE
Scrophulariaceae : Gamopetalae Plants mostly herbs; leaves alternate or opposite, exstipulate; flowers zygomorphic and hypogynous, hermaphrodite; calyx gamosepalous; corolla gamopetalous; stamens four or two, if four ...
SIMAROUBACEAE
Simaroubaceae : Polypetalae Simaroubaceae, the quassia family lants, in the order Sapindales, comprising 25 genera of pantropical trees, including Ailanthus, or the tree of heaven. Members of the family have leaves that ...
SOLANACEAE
Solanaceae: Gamopetalae Plants herbs, shurbs rarely trees; leaves alternate, flowers solitary or in cymes; axillary or terminal; flowers pentamerous, actinomorphic, hypogynous, hermaphrodite, calyx persistent, ...
STERCULIACEAE
Sterculiaceae : Polypetalae The Sterculiaceae are trees, shrubs, or herbs comprising about 65 genera and 1,000 species that are further characterized by the presence of stellate hairs. The leaves are alternate and simple ...
URTICACEAE
Urticaceae : Monochlamydeae The Urticaceae family, commonly known as the nettle family, is a group of flowering plants that includes about 60 genera and over 2,000 species. Most members of the Urticaceae family are ...
ZINGIBERACEAE
Zingiberaceae: Monocotyledons Presence of aromatic oils, ligule, marked differentiation of perianth into calyx and corolla, single stamen and large usually petaloid staminodium.
PTERIDOPHYTES
Pteridophytes Pteridophyta (Gr, Pteron = feather, phyton = plant), the name was originally given to those groups of plants which have well developed pinnate or frond like leaves. Pteridophytes are cryptogams (Gr. kruptos ...
GYMNOSPERMS
Gymnosperms Gymnosperms are the plants that are most ancient vascular, flowerless, seed-producing, and can reproduce through an exposed seed or ovule.Sexual reproduction is of oogamous type.They are perennial and show ...