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Mention the salient feature of family solancease

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Vegetative characters :
Plants mostly herbs. Shurbs and rarely small trees.
Stem : Herbaceous rarely woody , aeiral , erect , cylindrical , branched , solid or hollow , hairy or glabrous , underground stem in potato (Solanum tuberosum)

Leaves : alternate , simple , rarely pinnately compound , exstipulate , venation reticulate.
Floral Characters :
Infloresecense : Solitary , axillary or cymose as in Solanum.
Flower : bisexual , actinomorphic .
Calyx : sepals five , united , persistent , valvate aestivation .
Corolla : petals five , united : valvate aestivation .
Androecium : stamens five , epipetalous.
Gynoecium : bicarpellary , syncarpous , ovary superior , bilocular , placenta swollen with many ovules.
Fruits : berry or capsule .
Seeds : many , endospermous .
Floral formula :

Liliaceae :
Class : Monocotyledonae
Order : Liliflorae
Family : Liliaceae
Vegetative characters : Pereninal herbs with underground bulbs/corms/ rhizomes.
Leaves : mostly basal , alternate linear , exstipulate with parallel venation.
Floral characters :
Inflorescence : solitary / cymose , often umbellate clusters .
Flower : bisexual , actionomorphic
Perianth : tepal six (3 + 3) , often united into tube , valvate aestivation.
Androecium : stamen six (3 + 3).
Gynoecium : tricarpellary , syncarpous , ovary superior , trilocular with many ovules , axile placentation.
Fruit : capsule. rarely berry.
Seed : endospermous
Floral formula :
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