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family Commelinaceae

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Noun1.family Commelinaceae - large widely distributed family of chiefly perennial herbs or climbers: spiderworts
Commelinaceae, spiderwort family
liliopsid family, monocot family - family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed
Commelinales, order Commelinales, order Xyridales, Xyridales - an order of monocotyledonous herbs
genus Commelina - type genus of the Commelinaceae; large genus of herbs of branching or creeping habit: day flower; widow's tears
dayflower, spiderwort - any plant of the family Commelinaceae
genus Tradescantia, Tradescantia - spiderworts
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Swamp forests grew in the damp river valleys, and in them grew exotic Glyptostrobus pensilis (called water pines by the Chinese), shrubs from the Salicaceae , Myricaceae and Clethraceae families and herbaceous plants from the family Commelinaceae .
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