Describe the external features of a named monocotyledonous flowering plants. – NABTEB QUESTION

EXAMPLES OF MOCOT: Oil palm tree, maize, rice, spear grass, sugarcane, onion, plantain, banana, pineapple, bamboo, arrowroot, cocoyam.

Description

1. roots are numerous, long and slender/fibrous
2. all the roots arise at the same point at the base of the stem
3. stem is long and cylindrical
4. stem shows distinct/clear nodes and internodes
5. stem show no branding, sometimes covered by sheathing leaf bases.
6. leaf is long and narrow/slender/linear, with or without sheathing leaf base.
7. leaf is parallel-veined
8. flowers are small and numerous, usually dull-coloUred, not sweet-smelling.
9. pendant stamens, feathery stigma on flowers.