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Write diagnostic character of poaceae family

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The POACEAE are the most economically important plant family, providing staple foods from domesticated cereal crops such as maize, wheat, rice, barley, and millet as well as feed for meat-producing animals.

Mostly herbs, stem jointed, fistular, cylindrical; leaves simple, alternate, sheathing, SHEATH open, ligulate; inflorescence COMPOUND spike; flowers zygomorphic, hypogynous, protected by palea; perianth represented by 2 or 3 minute scales (lodicules); stamens 3, versatile; CARPEL one, style 2 or 3, STIGMAS feathery



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