Asphodelus tenuifolius commonly known as Piaji or Onion weed. It is a member of the Liliaceae family. In this article, we will learn about the position of leaves, flowers, and fruits of Asphodelus tenuifolius.
Scientific Name: Asphodelus tenuifolius
Some Basic Information about Asphodelus tenuifolius
Habit– An annual field herbaceous weed.
Root– Adventitious fibrous root.
Stem– Reduced, condensed, giving radicle leaves, aerial peduncles erect and fistular.
Leaf– Radicle, long, slender, cylindrical, hollow, fleshy, apex acute, leaf base sheathing, slightly hairy.
Inflorescence– Raceme.
Flower– Bracteate, bracts broadly ovate, pedicellate, actinomorphic, complete, hermaphrodite, trimerous, hypogynous, and white.
Perianth– Tepals 6, arranged in 2 whorls of 3 each, petaloid; polyphyllous, connate at the base, imbricate aestivation.
Androecium– Stamens 6, arranged in two whorls of 3 each, polyandrous, epiphyllous, anther large, dithecous, dorsifixed, introrse.
Gynoecium– Tricarpellary, syncarpous, ovary superior, trilocular, axile placentation, style simple, stigma 3-lobed.
Fruit– A loculicidal capsule.
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Floral formula– Br ⊕ ⚥ P3+3 A3+3 G(3)
Systematic Position:
Division – Phanerogamia
Subdivision – Angiospermae
Class – Monocotyledonae
Series – Coronarieae
Family – Liliaceae
Genus – Asphodelus
Species – tenuifolius
