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Vascular plant groups
Club mosses
Ferns
Vegetative key to families
Gymnosperms
Flowering plants
Genera
Families
Commelinaceae
Outer
perianth
segments green,
herbaceous
; leaf
sheath
closed (i.e., the margins
fused
)
Commelinaceae
consider the other alternative
Fertile stamens 2–3, filaments
glabrous
or
bearded
consider the other alternative
Inflorescence
not enclosed in a folded leafy
spathe
but often with 2 leaf-like bracts at the base
consider the other alternative
Leaves less than 10 cm long. Fruit
dehiscent
, small, inconspicuous
choose this alternative
reject this alternative
Filaments all
glabrous
.
Ovary
with 2 perfect
loculi
.
Aneilema
choose this alternative
reject this alternative
Some or all the filaments
bearded
.
Ovary
3-locular
Murdannia