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Botanical names of plants are given in Column I, and the family order name in Column II. Choose the appropriate combination from the options.

Column IColumn II
(P) Tamarindus indicai) Arecaceae
(Q) Cocos nuciferaii) Liliaceae
R) Calchicum autumnale(iii) Solanaceae
(s) Withania somnifera(iV) Papilionaceae


A. P- iv. Q-I, R-ii, S- iii
B. p- iv, Q- ii, R-iii, S-i
C. P-I Q,-ii, R-iv, S-iii
D. p- iv, Q- i, R- iii, S- ii

Answer
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Hint: Botanical name is a scientific name having an international code, and when comes to the family name, it usually starts with the capital letter and ends with ceae. And this family is classified between the order and genus.

Complete answer:
Arecaceae: The Arecaceae are the trees which are wooden shrubs, vine trees and they consist of 200 genera.
Commonly they are called palm trees, and they contain large and very large leaves.
Common examples for palm trees are Coconut Nucifera or coconut palm.
This is an example of feather palm trees and they have woody bracts.
So for Q it is ( i).
Liliacea: The liliacea belong to the lily family, they are perennial plants.
These are flowering plants and are monocots and almost they consist of 250 genera.
Some of the examples of the Liliaceae
Smilacaceae is the family that is similar to Liliaceae and the example for that family is Chalcium autumnale.
So the correct option for R is ii.
iii) Solanaceae: These are also called nightshades and they are a variety of shrubs, perennial plants.
They consist of a large variety of agriculture crops, medicinal plants, spices etc
Important example for this is withania somnifera, and it is commonly called ashwagandha and it is very much used in the Ayurveda.
Iv) Papilionaceae: They are also called as Fabaceae or Leguminosae and they have legumes, peas, beans and all economically very important crops.
Some of the examples of this are Tamarindus indicus.

So the correct option is A.

Note:
All plants belong to the Kingdom Plantae and they are again classified by division, family, class, order, family and the genus, scientists use family names to represent plant names, but common people called them by informal names.