Pentamerous, actinomorphic flowers, bicarpillary ovary with oblique septa, and fruit a capsule or berry, are characteristic features of
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Asteraceae
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Brassicaceae
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Solanaceae
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Liliaceae
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Solanaceae
Family Solanaceae possesses pentamerous, actinomorphic, hypogynous, hermaphrodite, complete flowers, bicarpellary, syncarpous, superior, bilocular ovary with axile placentation and oblique septa. The fruit is a berry or septicidal capsule.
In Asteraceae, ovary is bicarpellary, suncarpous, inferior, unilocular and fruit is cypsela.
In Brassicaceae, ovary is bicarpellary, syncarpous, superior, unilocular but later becomes bilocular due to false septum, fruit is siliqua or silicula.
In Liliaceae, flowers are usually trimerous, ovary is tricarpellary, syncarpous, superior, tricolour and fruit is fleshy berry or capsule.
