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Botany quiz 4 Flashcards

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Basal Tricoplates

What are the two orders?

A

Ranunculales

Proteales

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What are the three sympleiseomorphies of the eudicots?

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DNA evidence
tricolpate pollen (or derivatives of it)
distinct staminal filaments

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What are the three families of the order Ranunculales?

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Berberidaceae
Ranunculaceae
Papaveraceae

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  • alternate, simple leaves often lobed or dissected
  • laticifers common (colored latex)
  • sepals usually two, quickly deciduous
  • petals usually 4, often wrinkled
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Papaveraceae (poppy family)

  • Argemone
  • Eschscholzia
  • Papaver somniferum
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  • anthers open by flaps or slits that open from the base

- superior ovary (hypogynous flower) with a single carpel

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Berberidaceae (barberry family)

  • Berberis
  • Podophyllum peltatum
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  • stamens numerous
  • carpels usually five to numerous, distinct
  • hypogynous flower
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Ranunculaceae (buttercup family)

  • Ranunculus
  • Clematis
  • Delphinium
  • Aquilegia
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  • multilacunar nodes
  • branched hairs
  • inflorescences a globose, unisexual head
  • monoecious plants
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Platanaceae (sycamore family)

-Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore)

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What order is Platanaceae in?

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Proteales

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What are the five families of the order Caryophyllales?

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CAPCP

  • Polygonaceae
  • Amaranthaceae
  • Caryophyllaceae
  • Cactaceae
  • Phytolaccaceae
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  • stipules present, often fused to form an ocrea
  • colored sepals, no petals
  • seeds often trangular
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Polygonaceae (buckwheat family)

  • Polygonum
  • Rumex
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What is an ocrea

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Highly modified shealth around the petiole

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  • 1 ovule per carpel
  • pollen 7- to polyporate
  • tight clusters of small flowers
  • often in disturbed, arid, or saline habitats
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Amaranthaceae (pigweed family)

  • Amaranth
  • Beta
  • Chenopodium
  • Spinacia
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  • anthocyanins
  • opposite leaves
  • loculicidal capsule
  • coarse plants with spit petal ends
  • sepals and petals 4-5
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Caryophyllaceae (pink family)

  • Dianthus
  • Silene
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  • succulents
  • numerous tepals and stamens form a hypanthium
  • spines
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Cactaceae (cactus family)

-Opuntia

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  • indeterminate raceme or spike
  • fruit a berry
  • tepals 5
  • stamens 10 to many
  • gymnocium 3 to many
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Phytolaccaceae (pokeweed family)

-Phytolacca

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