Family Trilliaceae (Noun)
Meaning
Small family of herbs having flowers with 3 petals and 3 sepals; in some classification systems considered a subfamily of the Liliaceae.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The family Trilliaceae is a small group of flowering plants commonly known as wake-robins or trilliums.
- In the 1967 classification system of Takhtajan, the family Trilliaceae is included in the order Liliales.
- As of March 2016, the family Trilliaceae is accepted by the Angiosperm Phylogeny website.
- Trilliaceae is a small family of herbaceous plants that grow from rhizomes.
- The family Trilliaceae contains three genera: Trillium, Paris, and Pseudotrillium.