CANNACEAE

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1980, Flora Europaea. Volume 5. Alismataceae to Orchidaceae (Monocotyledones), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 324

CCII. CANNACEAE 1

Rhizomatous, perennial herbs. Leaves basal, distichous, with sheathing base, sometimes distinct petiole, and entire lamina. Flowers hermaphrodite, asymmetrical. Perianth of distinct calyx and corolla, each with 3 segments. Androecium of 1-4 petaloid staminodes and one asymmetrical member, which is mainly petaloid but bears at one side near the apex a single fertile anther-lobe; style petaloid, adnate in its lower half to the semi-fertile stamen. Ovary inferior, 3-locular; fruit a capsule; seeds numerous.

Literature: F. Kränzlin in Engler, Pflanzenreich 56(IV. 47): 1-77 (1912).