Musaceae: Monocotyledons

Plants large herbs with false stem, or trees, leaves large, compound inflorescence with large often petaloid bracts; Flower zygomorphic, hermaphrodite or unisexual, perianth 3+3, petaloid, often united, stamens 3+2 and staminode, gynoecium tricarpellary, syncarpous, inferior, trilocular with 1 to indefinite ovules in each locule, fruit berry or capsule, seed endospermic, often with perisperm.