Compare the families Arecaceae and Poaceae with the reference to the following
features:
Leaf, inflorescence, flowers, androecium, gynoecium
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| Arecaceae | Poaceae |
| Leaf | large or very large leaves, each with a tubular sheathing base that typically splits open on one side at maturity. The leaves are alternate, petiolate, and palmately or pinnately cleft to once or twice compound. | The leaves are alternate, and commonly 2-ranked, proximally comprising an open sheathing base with overlapping margins, and distally producing a parallel-veined, strap-shaped blade. On the adaxial leaf surface at the junction of the blade and sheath is an often hairy fringe of tissue called a ligule. |
| inflorescence | The inflorescence is usually paniculate and _______ ___ ______ __________ ________ ________ ___ ___ ___ _________. |