Vegetative key to the families
Vegetative Key Vegetative key to the families
Remaining groups
Plants not climbing
Herbs with leaves with parallel venation; the leaves sometimes reduced to scales on a rhizome, often with a sheath and a blade (the blade penniveined in Canna). Terrestrial or amphibious. Many monocotyledons, a few dicotyledons
Leaves borne on aerial stems, separated on the stem by distinct internodes
Leaves reduced to scarious sheaths on the aerial stems; green leaves absent except sometimes for green sheaths (Fig. 24)
Green leaves present on aerial stems