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Liliaceae

1-Floral formula

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The flowers of Liliaceae have 3 sepals, 3 petals, 6 stamens, and a syncarpous gynoecium of 3 carpels; the ovary can be superior or inferior.In a few genera, the sepals and petals fuse into a tube and the stamens are epipetalous (see example in slides 16 and 17).

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