Character/Data Set Information   

Commelinaceae         Search

1: Phenology [Unordered List]

• 1. perennial herbs   (22 taxa)
• 2. annual herbs   (3 taxa)
• 3. evergreen   (23 taxa)
• 4. deciduous   (2 taxa)
• 5. aquatic   (1 taxon)

• 1. roots fibrous   (19 taxa)
• 2. roots fibrous, fleshy   (6 taxa)

• 1. monomorphic stem   (25 taxa)
• 3. dimorphic stem   (7 taxa)

• 1. rhizomatous   (4 taxa)
• 2. procumbent   (11 taxa)
• 3. repent   (1 taxon)
• 4. acaulescent   (5 taxa)
• 5. stoloniferous   (2 taxa)
• 6. erect   (2 taxa)

• 1. vegetative shoot rosettes; flowering shoots erect or ascending   (1 taxon)
• 2. vegetative shoot acaulescent, erect; flowering shoots ascending   (2 taxa)
• 3. vegetative shoot acaulescent; flowering shoots ascending   (4 taxa)

• 1. rooting at nodes   (20 taxa)
• 2. absent   (5 taxa)

• 1. not perforating   (15 taxa)
• 2. perforating   (9 taxa)
• 3. absent   (1 taxon)

• 1. nearly arrangement in the same plant   (3 taxa)
• 2. spiral phyllotaxis   (22 taxa)

• 1. sessile   (21 taxa)
• 2. subsessile   (1 taxon)
• 3. subpetiolate   (10 taxa)

• 1. lanceolate   (14 taxa)
• 2. linear   (8 taxa)
• 3. oblanceolate   (2 taxa)
• 4. elliptic   (4 taxa)
• 5. ovate   (3 taxa)
• 6. lorate   (2 taxa)

• 1. acuminate   (20 taxa)
• 2. acute   (7 taxa)

• 1. glabrous   (16 taxa)
• 2. pubscent   (12 taxa)

• 1. glabrous   (9 taxa)
• 2. pubscent   (9 taxa)

• 1. sheathing, apex acute   (16 taxa)
• 2. sheathing, apex bifid   (10 taxa)

• 1. axillary   (2 taxa)
• 2. terminal   (23 taxa)

• 1. cincinnus   (5 taxa)
• 2. capitate cincinus   (2 taxa)
• 3. rhipidium   (6 taxa)
• 4. solitary   (2 taxa)
• 5. thyrse   (10 taxa)

• 1. lanceolate   (5 taxa)
• 2. deltoid   (1 taxon)
• 3. ovate   (11 taxa)
• 4. lorate-laceolate, spathe-like   (1 taxon)
• 5. triangular   (2 taxa)
• 6. oblong   (1 taxon)
• 7. broadly ovate   (1 taxon)
• 8. ovate, sometimes leaf-like   (1 taxon)
• 9. ovate-elliptic   (2 taxa)
• 10. spathe lanceolate, folded   (1 taxon)
• 11. spathe infundibuliform, obliquely obtriangular   (3 taxa)
• 12. spathe broadly cordate, folded   (1 taxon)
• 13. lorate-laceolate, sometimes leaf-like   (1 taxon)
• 14. absent   (1 taxon)

• 1. actinomorphic: petal 3, base free, equal or subequal   (16 taxa)
• 2. actinomorphic: petal 3, base fused, equal   (2 taxa)
• 3. zygomorphic: petal 3, base free, unequal   (7 taxa)

• 1. bisexual   (13 taxa)
• 2. bisexual, functionally male flowers   (12 taxa)

• 1. sepal 3, equal   (16 taxa)
• 2. sepal 3, subequal   (4 taxa)
• 3. sepal 3, unequal   (5 taxa)

• 1. greenish   (22 taxa)
• 2. white   (3 taxa)

• 1. free   (19 taxa)
• 2. base fused   (2 taxa)
• 3. the anticous 2, basally fused   (4 taxa)

• 1. oblong   (2 taxa)
• 2. lanceolate   (13 taxa)
• 3. elliptic   (7 taxa)
• 4. the anticous 2 elliptic; the posticous one lanceolate   (5 taxa)

• 1. glabrous   (17 taxa)
• 2. glandular hairs   (2 taxa)
• 3. hispid, base villous   (1 taxon)
• 4. margin and ridge ciliate   (3 taxa)
• 5. one glabrous, the others puberulent at ridge   (1 taxon)

• 1. white   (7 taxa)
• 2. pink, purple, or blue   (20 taxa)

• 1. obovate   (6 taxa)
• 2. oblanceolate-oblong   (1 taxon)
• 3. suborbicular   (9 taxa)
• 4. obovate-orbicular   (1 taxon)
• 5. oblanceolate   (1 taxon)
• 6. connate below into a tube   (2 taxa)
• 7. dimorphic: the lateral petals 2 broadly rounded-ovate; the medial petal lanceolate   (1 taxon)
• 8. dimorphic: the lateral petals 2 oblanceolate; the medial petal oblong   (1 taxon)
• 9. dimorphic: the lateral petals 2 broadly rounded-ovate; the medial petal small   (4 taxa)
• 10. dimorphic: the lateral petals 2 broadly ovate; the medial petal small   (1 taxon)

• 1. monomorphic: fertile stamens 6   (7 taxa)
• 2. dimorphic: fertile stamens 6   (1 taxon)
• 3. dimorphic: fertile stamens 3   (6 taxa)
• 4. trimorphic: fertile stamens 3   (5 taxa)
• 5. trimorphic: fertile stamens 2   (6 taxa)

• 1. ellipsoid   (15 taxa)
• 2. globoid   (2 taxa)
• 3. ellipsoid-globose   (3 taxa)
• 4. globose   (3 taxa)
• 5. oblong-ellipsoid   (1 taxon)
• 6. globose-ellipsoid   (2 taxa)

• 1. glabrous   (19 taxa)
• 2. apex hispid   (4 taxa)
• 3. apex hirsute   (1 taxon)
• 4. densely uncinate   (1 taxon)

• 1. glabrous   (20 taxa)
• 2. barbate   (3 taxa)
• 3. tuberculatus   (1 taxon)

• 1. dehiscent   (18 taxa)
• 2. dehiscent, the dorsal locule usually indehiscent   (3 taxa)
• 3. dehiscent, opened by external force   (1 taxon)
• 4. indehiscent   (6 taxa)

• 1. ellipsoid   (18 taxa)
• 2. globose   (4 taxa)
• 3. ovoid   (1 taxon)
• 4. globoid   (4 taxa)
• 5. trigonous   (1 taxon)
• 6. ovate-oblong   (1 taxon)
• 7. obovoid   (1 taxon)

• 1. trilocular   (22 taxa)
• 2. bilocular   (2 taxa)

• 1. glabrous   (19 taxa)
• 2. apex hirsute   (2 taxa)
• 3. apex hispid   (2 taxa)
• 4. hispid   (1 taxon)
• 5. densely uncinate   (1 taxon)