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Xerophytic, polycarpic, dioecious, or polygamodioecious perennials; shortly caulescent to large and treelike, stem fibrous, sometimes greatly swollen at base; trunks upright, reclining, or subterranean, often branched, covered by persistent leaves or scaly bark. Leaves in dense, terminal rosettes; blades linear with expanded spoonlike base, flat or concave, margins minutely serrulate or with enlarged prickles (Dasylirion), apices fibrous or brushy. Inflorescences in terminal, many-flowered, complex panicles, sometimes with dense axillary fascicles (Dasylirion); bracts large. Flowers mostly unisexual, trimerous, hypogynous, actinomorphic, articulated on jointed pedicels. Tepals 6, in 2 whorls, free, scarious, whitish yellow or tinged with purple. Stamens 6, ± exserted, rudimentary in pistillate flowers; filaments free, glabrous, inserted at base of tepals; anthers dorsifixed, introrse. Ovary with 1–3 locules, 3-sided, reduced and nonfunctional in staminate flowers; septal nectaries present; ovules 6, 2 per carpel; style short; stigma 3-lobed. Fruits dry, ± indehiscent, 3-winged samaras, 3-lobed ± inflated capsules, or 3-ribbed nuts; seeds 1–3 per fruit, phytomelan pigment not present; endosperm not starchy; embryo cylindrical, straight.
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Bogler, D. (1998). Nolinaceae. In: Kubitzki, K. (eds) Flowering Plants · Monocotyledons. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03533-7_46
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