All Families & Friends Flashcards
Identify the family:
-Alternate leaves
-Spiral phyllotaxy
-Cylindrical strobili
-Kidney shaped sporangia
-Homosporous
Lycopodiaceae
Identify the family:
-Alternate leaf arrangement
-Dimorphic
-4-ranked phyllotaxy
-Strobilli 4-sided
-Globose sporangia
-Heterosporous
Selaginellaceae
Identify the family:
-Terrestrial/Aquatic
-Compact stems
-Corm
-Leaves with air chambers
-Alternate leaf arrangement
-Spiral phyllotaxy
-Strobili absent
-Large sporangia at the base of the leaves
-Heterosporous
Isoetaceae
Identify the family:
-Epiphytic
-Roots absent
-Scale-like leaves
-3-loculed sporangia
-Homosporous
Psilotaceae
Identify the family:
-Leaves simple/compound
-Dimorphic
-Leaves divided into Sporophore and Trochophore
-Homosporous
Ophioglossaceae
Identify the family:
-Grooved stem with air canals and silica bodies
-Scale-like leaves
-Whorled leaf arrangement
-Spores with elaters
-Sporangiophores
-Homosporous
Equisetaceae
Identify this family:
-Compound leaves
-Dimorphic/ Partially dimorphic
-Absence of sori
-Dehisced sporangia look like pac-man
-Homosporous
Osmundaceae
Identify the family:
-Aquatic
-Compound leaves (4 leaflets)
-Sporangia aggregated into sporocarps
-Heterosporous
Marsileaceae
Identify the family:
-Aquatic
-Simple leaves, small hairs
-Microscopic sporangia
-Heterosporous
Salviniaceae
Identify the order:
-Compound leaves
-Homosporous
-Sori present
-Sporangia on leaf underside
-Annulus present
Polypodiales
Identify the genus:
-Diecious
-Coralloid roots
-Cataphylls
-Leaves pinnately compound
-Inverted omega pattern of vascular bundles in the petioles
-Female and male strobili
Cycads
Identify the family:
-Dioecious
-Habit: non-woody shrubs
-Pinnate leaves
-Single main vein per leaflet
-Cataphylls
-Microstrobili present and large, with numerous microsporangia
-No megastrobili,rather simple aggregations of megasporophylls at the apical meristem
Cycadaceae
Identify the family:
-Dioecious
-Habit: non-woody shrubs
-Pinnate leaves
-Multiple veins per leaflet
-Cataphylls
-Microstrobili present and large, with numerous microsporangia
-Mega sporangiate strobili
Zamiaceae
Identify the family:
-Dioecious
-Habit: deciduous trees
-Fan shaped leaves with dichotomous venation
-Short and long shoots
-Microstrobilus with many microsporophylls, very short-lived and deciduous
-Megastrobili consisting of only two ovules
Ginkgoaceae
Identify the family:
-Habit:trees
-Highly resinous
-Leaves often borne in fascicles (short shoots)
-Microstrobili with 2 microsporagia on each microsporophyll
-“Mickeymouse” pollen
-Cones with 2 ovules per scale, ovules directed towards cone axis
-Seeds with wing
Pinaceae
What family has winged seedlings?
Pinaceae
Identify the family:
-Habit:trees
-Leaves scale-like, often opposite, but varied
-Phyllotaxy often decussate
-Often many(>2) microsporangia on microsporophyll
-Often many ovules on each ovulate scale
Cupressaceae
Identify the family:
-Habit:trees
-Dioecious
-Leaves typically broad (not needle-like)
-Cone highly reduced to a single seed
-Cone modified into a juicy epimatium for dispersal by vertebrates
Podocarpaceae
Identify the family:
-Habit:trees
-Dioecious
-Seeds arillate
-Microsporophylls somewhat peltate
-Ovules solitary and lacking cones
Taxaceae
Identify the family:
-Habit:trees with straight trunk
-Monoecious or dioecious
-Large microstrobili
-Usually with large cones
-One seed per ovulate scale and seeds very large
Araucariaceae
Identify the family:
-Habit:lianas
-Dioecious
-Broad leaves with reticulate venation
-Strobili with mixed male and female structures
-Horizontal pedioles
Gnetaceae
Identify the family:
-Habit:shrubs
-Dioecious
-Stems tough and often glaucous
-Leaves opposite or whorled, reduced to scales
-Strobili small
-Micropylar tube
Ephedraceae
Identify the family:
-Habit:suffrutescent herb
-Dioecious
-Only produce cotyledons that continue to grow for hundreds of years
Welwitschiaceae
Name the family:
* Habit: shrubs
* Dioecious
* Aggregate of drupes
Amborellaceae
Name the family:
* Habit: aquatic herbs
* Rhizomes
* Leaves with long petioles and floating blades
* Many petaloid stamens
(staminodes) that look
like tepals
* Fused carpels in a ring
* Roots with transverse air spaces
Nymphaeaceae
Name the family:
* Habit: shrubs, vines
* Spiral phyllotaxy
* Leaves alternate
* Often smelling of anise (licorice)
* Solitary flowers
* Follicles in a single whorl in Illicium (resembling a crown)
* Unorganized tepals
Schisandraceae
Name the family:
* Habit: trees, shrubs
* Spiral phyllotaxy
* Leaves alternate
* Stipules encircling stem
* Fuzzy buds
* Solitary, terminal flowers
* Aggregate of samaras
* Aggregate of follicles
* Elongated receptacle
* Crest-shaped stigmas
Magnoliaceae
Name the family:
* Habit: trees
* 2-ranked phyllotaxy
* Leaves alternate, often obovate with a drip tip
* 3 whorls of tepals, outermost sepal-like
* Ball of stamens
* Seeds with ruminate endosperm
* Aggregate of berries
* Often pollinated by beetles
Annonaceae
Name the family:
* Habit: trees, shrubs
* Etherial oils prominent, spicy
* Stems remaining green unusually long
* Spiral phyllotaxy
* Leaves alternate
* Inflorescences present
* Flowers small, usually with 6 tepals, nectar glands
* Stamens dehiscing byf laps
* Drupes subtended by cupules
* Plinervy
* Anthers dehiscing by flaps, with thickened connective tissue
Lauraceae
Name the family:
* Habit: herbs, many epiphytic
* Stem often with scattered vascular bundles
* Sheathing petioles
* Leaf bases often asymmetric, palmate venation
* Spikes with tiny, inconspicuous flowers
* Peperomia
Piperaceae
Name the family:
* Habit: herbs or lianas
* Flowers large and showy
* Sepals (tepals) showy, often fused into a long and zygomorphic tube
* Stamens often fused to the style = gynostemium or column
* Capsule with winged seeds
Aristolochiaceae
Name the family:
* Herbs (rarely vines)
* Leaves often compound or finely dissected
* Usually 5 sepals and petals, many stamens, many distinct carpels
* Spurs sometimes present
* Fruits variable but typically aggregates of follicles and achenes
Ranunculaceae
Name the family:
* Herbs or shrubs
* Leaves dissected or compound
* Yellow wood (from berberine)
* Single carpel
* Berry
* Flower often white or yellowish and single carpel
Berberidaceae
Name the family:
* Herbs
* Laticifers
* Leaves usually lobed or dissected
* Sepals usually 2 & deciduous
* 2 carpels (but can be many)
* Capsules
Papaveraceae
Name the family:
* Trees
* Flaky bark
* Leaves palmately lobed
* Inflorescences globose heads, with many flowers
* Flowers imperfect (separate male and
female)
* 2 carpels (but can be many)
* Achenes subtended by long bristles
Plantaceae
Name the family:
* Herbs
* Leaves usually simple, palmate venation, & toothy
* No stipules
* Hypanthium
* Usually 2 carpels, fused
with remnant styles (capsules)
Saxifragaceae
Name the family:
* Habit: succulent herbs
* CAM
* Leaves usually simple, opposite or alternate
* Some make plantlets on the margins of leaves
* Sepals and petals fused or not
* Usually 5c arpels, NOT fused with remnant styles (follicles)
Crassulaceae
Name the family:
* Habit: small trees
* Leaves 2-ranked, simple, pinnate venation, & crenate/serrate
* Hairs stellate
* Petals may be long, strap-shaped
* Usually 2 carpels, fused with remnant styles (capsules)
Hamamelidaceae
Name the family:
* Habit: trees
* Leaves usually palmately lobed and serrate
* Wind-pollinated, flowers not showy
* Separate male and female inflorescences
* Multiple of capsules
* Remnant style branches
Altingiaceae
Name the family:
* Habit: lianas
* Stem with swollen nodes
* Leaves often lobed and toothed
* Leaf-opposed tendrils
* Inflorescences highly branched
* Petals deciduous as a “cap”
* Stamens opposite the petals
* Berry, distinctive seeds
Vitaceae