What's the difference between liliaceous and phormium?

Liliaceous


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a natural order of which the lily, tulip, and hyacinth are well-known examples.
  • (a.) Like the blossom of a lily in general form.

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  • (1) Large quantities of intact generative cells and their protoplasts were isolated from pollen protoplasts of four liliaceous plants, and their structural features were investigated.
  • (2) Morex) stems and leaf sheaths, was used to elucidate the chemical structures of several oligomeric fructans extracted from liliaceous and graminaceous species.
  • (3) The premeiotic and meiotic stages are described in the pollen mother cells of the liliaceous plant Eremurus.
  • (4) XET was detected in extracts of the growing portions of dicotyledons, monocotyledons (graminaceous and liliaceous) and bryophytes.

Phormium


Definition:

  • (n.) A genus of liliaceous plants, consisting of one species (Phormium tenax). See Flax-plant.

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