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Polypetalous corolla, twisted aestivation, monadelphous stamens and capsular fruit are the essential features of the family

Updated On: Jun 21, 2022
  • Musaceae
  • Apocynaceae
  • Malvaceae
  • Liliaceae.
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Malvaceae, the Hibiscus or mallow family consists of herbs, shrubs and trees. Cotton comes under this family. The members of this family have tap root system, aerial, erect, branched, woody stem, simple, petiolate leaf, solitary, terminal or axillary inflorescence, bracetate or ebracteate, actinomorphic, bisexual flower, gamosepalous calyx with valvate aestivation, polypetalous corolla with twisted aestivation, monadelphous stamens, superior, syncarpous, ovary and loculicidal capsule or schizocarp fruit.
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A flower is a modified shoot. A flower bud is formed when shoot apical meristem in angiospermous plants gets transformed into floral meristem and leaves transform into floral appendages.

In angiosperms, flowers are the reproductive units and they are meant for sexual reproduction. A typical flower possesses four types of floral organs or whorls — sepals (calyx) , petals (corolla), stamens (androecium), and carpels (gynoecium). These whorls are arranged on the swollen end of the stalk or pedicel, called the thalamus or receptacle. 

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