Floral formula of potato family
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Explanation:
Habit: Annual, biennial or perennial herbs, or small tree.
Roots: Fibrous or tuberous tap root.
Stem: Herbaceous or Nsood.); sometimes underground stem (tuber).
Leaves: Petiolate; alternate or opposite; simple; exstipulate;
Inflorescence: Terminal or lateral cyme or solitary.
Flower: Pedicillate; ebracteate; actinomorphic or zygomorphic; Regular; complete; hermaphrodite; hypogynous;
Calyx: 5 sepals; fused (gamosepalous); green; often much enlarged in the fruit.
Corolla: 5 petals; gamopetalous; bell shaped or funnel shaped.
Stamens: 5 stamens; epipetalous; anther free or united; basifixed
Carpel: Bicarpellary; syncarpous; ovary superior; obliquely placed; bilocular, sometimes, become multilocular by the . formation of false septum. Placentation axile.
Fruits: Capsule or berry
Seed: Endospermic seed.