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Perennial pachycaul small trees to stemless herbs with massive underground Rstock or rhizome; stems sometimes with secondary growth; L mostly numerous in dense Ros, narrowly oblong to filiform-linear, xeromorphic and wiry, tough, tips often spiny, basally often broadened and persistent; Inf spikes, heads, or thyrses, or head- or umbel-like, or Fl solitary; Fl bisexual or unisexual (plants monoecious or dioecious and male and female Fl often dissimilar), 3-merous, normally numerous and small; Per with 6 dry and chaffy persistent Tep in 2 series, free or basally united; St 3 + 3, the inner often basally united with the Tep; Anth basifixed or versatile, opening longitudinally; Ov superior, of 3 united Ca, with axile or axile-basal placentation, 3- or 1-locular; Sty 3 or 1 with 3 Sti, ovules 1 to several per locule; Fr loculicidal capsules or indehiscent, with numerous Se or 1-seeded nuts; endosperm copious.
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Eggli, U. (2001). Xanthorrhoeaceae. In: Eggli, U. (eds) Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Monocotyledons. Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56715-5_18
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