8: Fabids 2 Identification (4/23) Flashcards
What groups are within the Rosids?
Fabids and Malvids
What orders are within the Rosids?
Oxalidales
Malpighiales
Fabales
Rosales
Cucurbitales
Fagales
What families belong to the order Rosales?
Rosaceae
Rhamnaceae
Moraceae
Moraceae is part of the Urticalean Rosales
Rhamnaceae
What order is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the family?
Stamens opposite petals
From Rosales
Ceanothus
What family is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the genus?
From Rhamnaceae
Rosaceae
What order is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the family?
All have hypanthium
From Rosales
Adenostoma
What family is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the genus?
Shrub w/ tiny leaves
Small white flowers
Fruit an achene
From Rosaceae
Cercocarpus
What family is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the genus?
Flowers have numerous stamens + funnel shaped hypanthium
Usually serrated leaf margin
From Rosaceae
Heteromeles
What family is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the genus?
Serrated leaves
Small white flowers grouped into showy panicle
From Rosaceae
Prunus
What family is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the genus?
Hypanthium completely free of ovary
Serrated leaves
Drupes
Plum, cherry, apricot, almond, peach
From Rosaceae
Rubus
What family is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the genus?
Forms brambles, prickles often present on stem/leaves
Flowers w/ many pistils, each becoming a drupelet
Drupelet: one of the individual parts of an aggregate fruit
From Rosaceae
Moraceae
What order is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the family?
Latificers and milky latex
Leaves simple and often lobed, has stipules
Monoecious or dioecious
From Rosales
Ficus
What family is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the genus?
Milky juice
Sheathing stipules make scars
Syconia
Syconia: a fleshy hollow receptacle that develops into a multiple fruit, as in the fig
From Moraceae
What families belong to the order Cucurbitales?
Cucurbitaceae
Unisexual flowers
Inferior ovary
Cucurbitaceae
What order is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the family?
Herbaceous vines
Tendrils in leaf axils
From Cucurbitales
Marah
What family is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the genus?
Fruit a capsule, spiny projections
Staminate flowers in racemes, pistillate solitary
Sympetalous corolla
Sympetalous: having the petals united along their margins to form a tubular shape
Fruit looks fleshy at first but eventually bursts open
From Cucurbitaceae
What families belong to the order Fagales?
Fagaceae
Betulaceae
Juglandaceae
Unisexual flowers
Inferior ovary
Fagaceae
What order is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the family?
Staminate flowers in catkins
Pistillate solitary/in clusters
Nuts subtended by a cupule
Cupule: cup-shaped organ, structure, or receptacle
Beech family, oaks
From Fagales
Quercus
What family is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the genus?
Leaves often lobed or bristled/spiny along margins
Normal acorns
Staminate flowers in loose, dangling catkins
Pistillate flowers solely an involucre and pistil
Oak
From Fagaceae
Nolithocarpus
What family is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the genus?
Leaves with prominent veins and spiny margins
Acorn has long, reflexed scales
Staminate flowers in stiff, erect catkins
Pistillate flowers in small clusters
Tanbark oak
From Fagaceae
Chrysolepis
What family is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the genus?
Golden powdery scales on underside of leaves and on stems
Staminate flowers are an rect catkin
Pistillate flowers enclosed in spiny burr
From Fagaceae
Betulaceae
What order is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the family?
Leaves usually double toothed
Staminate flowers in pendulous catkins, pistillate in upright woody catkins
From Fagales
Alnus
What family is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the order?
Smooth grayish bark
Staminate catkins are elongated + flexible
Female cones are ovoid, woody, erect
From Betulaceae
Corylus
What family is it part of and what are some distinguishing features of the order?
Soft-hairy leaves
Staminate catkins pendent
Pistillate flowers in small cluster
Involucre matures into husk that surrounds nut
Hazelnut
From Betulaceae
