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Hermaphrodite, perennial, terrestrial herbs with short erect stems from short thick rhizomes; roots thickened; leaves alternate, basal, numerous, more or less sheathing; leaf blades dorsiventral, linear, parallel-veined. Inflorescence a terminal, erect, pedunculate, leafy, spike-like condensed panicle; flowers clustered, hypogynous, small, greenish white to brownish purple, with brownish veins; perianth persistent, of 2 similar trimerous tepal whorls; tepals free, connivent basally into a short tube with linear, spreading limbs; stamens 3, attached to the inner tepals; filaments free, short, flat; anthers linear, basifixed, introrse, dehiscent longitudinally; ovary sessile, syncarpous, 3-locular, ovary ovoid, slightly 3-lobed; septal nectaries present; style short, filiform; stigma small, capitate; ovules anatropous, 2 in each locule, placentation axile; fruit an ovoid to oblong loculicidal capsule; seeds 1–2 in each locule, black, spindle-shaped, carinate; testa thick, phytomelan encrusted, endosperm fleshy; embryo cylindric.
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Conran, J.G., Rudall, P.J. (1998). Anemarrhenaceae. In: Kubitzki, K. (eds) Flowering Plants · Monocotyledons. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03533-7_12
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