COMMELINACEAE, Spiderwort Family
Leaves sheathing at base, entire; flowers hypogynous. perfect, clustered, ephemeral; sepals 3, green; petals 3, sometimes unequal; stamens 6, some of them sometimes sterile; carpels 3, united; ovary 3-locuJed; ovules 1·few in each locule or 1 locule empty; style 1, stigma 1; fruit a capsule.
Commelinaceae