<p>Leaves: alternate, simple; margin entire; petiole base with closed sheath; involute leaf vernation</p> <p> Fruit a capsule or berry </p> soljokasvit <p>Leaves: alternate, simple; margin entire; petiole base with closed sheath; involute leaf vernation</p> <p>Pantropical-temperate</p> <p>Florescence often subtended by a bract. Bisexual. Flower: 3 sepals; 3 petals, sometimes one petal reduced; 6 stamens with often hairy filaments; ovary superior</p> <p>Often soft succulent. The stem is nodose. The petiole base makes a closed sheath. Involute leaf vernation (=the opposing margins of a developing leaf are rolled up forming two tubes that may meet at the midrib of the upper surface of the leaf). The filaments of the stamens are often hairy.</p> <p>650 spp.</p> <p>Pantropical-temperate</p> Commelinaceae <p>Herbs (or shrubs)</p> <p>Florescence often subtended by a bract. Bisexual. Flower: 3 sepals; 3 petals, sometimes one petal reduced; 6 stamens with often hairy filaments; ovary superior</p> <p>Ornamentals</p> <p>Herbs (or shrubs)</p> <p>Florescence often subtended by a bract. Bisexual. Flower: 3 sepals; 3 petals, sometimes one petal reduced; 6 stamens with often hairy filaments; ovary superior</p> 0 <p>650 spp.</p> <p>Pantropical-temperate</p> himmelsblomsväxter Mirb. <p> Fruit a capsule or berry </p> <p>Ornamentals</p> <p>Leaves: alternate, simple; margin entire; petiole base with closed sheath; involute leaf vernation</p> <p>650 spp.</p> <p>Ornamentals</p> <p>Herbs (or shrubs)</p> <p>Often soft succulent. The stem is nodose. The petiole base makes a closed sheath. Involute leaf vernation (=the opposing margins of a developing leaf are rolled up forming two tubes that may meet at the midrib of the upper surface of the leaf). The filaments of the stamens are often hairy.</p> <p> Fruit a capsule or berry </p> true <p>Often soft succulent. The stem is nodose. The petiole base makes a closed sheath. Involute leaf vernation (=the opposing margins of a developing leaf are rolled up forming two tubes that may meet at the midrib of the upper surface of the leaf). The filaments of the stamens are often hairy.</p>