Members of this family are perennial plants, with a bulb, corm or rhizome. The plants grow erect, and have leaves that are generally grass-like, with a sharp central fold. Some examples of …

Plants of the family Iridaceae are mostly perennial herbs, though there are a few shrubs and evergreen herbs as well. Most have long narrow leaves, generally with parallel venation. The …

2. Ensiform Petiolar Leaves. (i) The occurrence of ensiform leaves in the Iridaceae. In a previous paper 3 I have briefly discussed the ensiform (or isobilateral equitant) leaf, and its relation to …

Plants belonging to this family are perennial herbs or subshrubs, easily recognized among monocots by having isobilateral equitant leaves overlapping transversely with each other to …

Leaf anatomy is described in 32 species of 16 genera of the New World tribe Tigridieae (Iridaceae, Iridoideae), including examples from both subtribes Cipurinae and Tigridiinae. Both …

Leaves basal and cauline, sometimes the lower 2–3 without blades, sheathing the stem base and reaching shortly above the ground (thus cataphylls), mostly distichous, the bases usually …

2008年3月25日 · Leaves in many genera have two rows of opposing vascular bundles (found also in many other Iridaceae), sometimes (except in e.g. Pillansia) combined with typical ixioid …

The Iridaceae are perennial herbs from rhizomes, bulbs or corms comprising about 80 genera and 1,500 species. The leaves are distichous and have a sheathing, equitant base and a generally …

Family: Iridaceae

Leaves basal and cauline, distichous; proximal 2–3 sometimes membranous, not reaching much above ground; others with open or closed sheaths, usually unifacial [bifacial or terete], oriented …