Question

The floral characters of Liliaceae are
(A) Six tepals, zygomorphic, six stamens, bilocular ovary, axile placentation
(B) Tetramerous, actinomorphic, polyphyllous, unilocular ovary, axile placentation
(C) Trimerous, actinomorphic, polyandrous, superior ovary, axile placentation
(D) Bisexual, zygomorphic gamophyllous, inferior ovary, marginal placentation
(E) Unisexual, actinomorphic, trilocular, inferior ovary, axile placentation

Answer 1

Liliaceae family is also known as lily family. This family consists of monocotyledonous plants. They contain only a single cotyledon. This family belongs to kingdom angiosperms. This family is distributed all over the world.

Complete answer:
Now let us see the characters of family Liliaceae :-
Vegetative Characters:
Habit: Perennial herbs with underground bulbs, corms and rhizomes.
Roots: Adventitious, fibrous
Stem: Aerial or underground, herbaceous or woody.
Leaves: Mostly basal, alternate, linear, exstipulate with parallel venation.
Floral Characters
Inflorescence: Solitary / cymose, often umbellate clusters.
Flower: Bisexual means both the sexes are present in single flower and they are actinomorphic that is any plane passing through the body divides the body into two equal halves and is also known as radial symmetry .
Perianth: Petal six (3+3) often united into tubes , this means that calyx and corolla remain united with each other . valvate aestivation that is the calyx and corolla just touches the whorl of each other and do not overlaps with each other
Androecium: The male reproductive part of the Liliaceae consists of 6 Stamen which remains united in the form of (3+3) so called as polyandrous condition
Gynoecium: Tricarpellary, so the ovary is called as trimerous the ovary has three carpels and ovary remains fused syncarpous, ovary superior that is the ovary is present above all the parts of a flower, trilocular with many ovules so placentation is called as axile placentation
Fruit: Capsule, rarely berry
Seeds: Endospermous

Our required answer is C) Trimerous, actinomorphic, polyandrous, superior ovary, axile placentation.

Note: The plants of this family have many economic importance . The young shoots and root tubers of Asparagus are cooked as food. Aloe is used as a source of medicine . They are also used as ornamental plants the most common example is Tulip.