Like we and our siblings belongs to a particular "family", related plants also has got a FAMILY.
Plants which show close resemblance or similarities in the structure of their various key organs (like leaf, flower and fruit) has been clubbed together under a plant family. For eg: Mango and Cashew is under the family called Anacardiaceae, because they show close similarity in their key organs.
All the plants hitherto reported, has been examined by plant taxonomists and has been assigned to their respective families.
The plants in a family will share a set of common characters, more popularly referred to as "spot characters".
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