Fruit a capsule or berry. Mostly naturalised aliens, e.g. Agapanthus, Allium, Narcissus . Leaves often linear and grass-like forming a rosette or a tuft and arising from a bulb, corm or rhizome. Inflorescences various, often panicles. Fruit a capsule.
Most orchids are perennial herbs, arising annually from rhizomes, tubers or thickened rootstocks.
Stems solid, often triangular in cross-section. Flowers bisexual subtended by 1 bract. Perianth segments 0-6, in 1 whorl. Fruit often triangular in cross-section, pericarp and testa free from one another. Leaf sheath closed.