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

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Leaves borne on aerial stems, separated on the stem by distinct internodes

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Green leaves present on aerial stems

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Leaves with a sheath and a blade; the sheath abruptly distinct from the blade

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Leaves without a sheath, but often dilated into a broad base which is sometimes stem-clasping or stem-encircling, but not abruptly distinct from the blade