Umbelliferae & Solanaceae family characteristics & plants list
Umbelliferae & Solanaceae family characteristics & plants list
Umbelliferae / Apiaceae
family characteristics
| Habit | Aromatic herbs with a fistular stem (solid at the node, hollow at internode). |
| Leaves | Alternate, simple or decompound |
| Inflorescence | Simple or compound umbel |
| Flower | Small, bisexual, actinomorphic epigynous with a disk. Sepals 5 united, petals 5 free, unequal. |
| Androecium | Stamens 5, free, anthers versatile |
| Gynoecium | Carpels 2, united, ovary inferior, 2 chambered; style 2, stylopodium present (swollen base of style), stigma 2, capitate. |
| Fruit | Cremocarp, dehiscing into two dry segments (mericarp), which are suspended from a slender biforked axis called carpophore; vittae (oil gland) present. |
Plants list
| Name | Foeniculum vulgare |
| Parts | Fruit |
| Uses | As a condiment |
| Name | Carum carvi |
| Parts | Fruit |
| Uses | As a condiment |
| Name | Coriandrum sativum |
| Parts | Fruit |
| Uses | As a condiment |
| Name | Trachyspermum ammi |
| Parts | Fruit |
| Uses | As a condiment |
| Name | Daucus carota |
| Parts | Taproot |
| Uses | Vegetable |
| Name | Centella asiatica |
| Parts | Whole plant |
| Uses | Medicine |
| Name | Ferula asafoetida |
| Parts | Resinous exudation of young bud and roots |
| Uses | As a high of commerce |
Acanthaceae & Labiatae family characteristics and plants list
Umbelliferae & Solanaceae family characteristics & plants list
Solanaceae
Family characteristics
| Habit | plants herbs or shrubs |
| Leaves | simple, alternate, exstipulate |
| Inflorescence | cymose (axillary) |
| Flower | bisexual, actinomorphic, hypogynous, Calyx- sepals 5, gamosepalous, imbricate, persistent Corolla- petals 5, Gamopetalous, rotate or funnel-shaped |
| Androecium | stamens 5, epipetalous; anther 2 celled, dehisces by an apical pore |
| Gynoecium | carpels 2, syncarpous, Ovary superior, 2 chambered or 4 chambered by a false partition. Many anatropous ovule on axile placenta. Style- 1, terminal, stigma, slightly bilobed. |
| Fruit | many-seeded berry or capsule |
Plants list
| Name | Solanum tuberosum |
| Parts | tuber |
| Uses | vegetable |
| Name | Solanum melongena |
| Parts | fruit |
| Uses | vegetable |
| Name | Lycopersicon esculentum |
| Parts | fruit |
| Uses | vegetable |
| Name | Capsicum frutescens |
| Parts | fruit |
| Uses | spice |
| Name | Nicotiana tabacum |
Parts | leaf |
| Uses | tobacco |
| Name | Atropa belladonna |
| Parts | leaves, and roots |
| Uses | medicine (Atropine) |