Botany quiz III

Question 1

ANITA grade

Answer 1

Amborellaaceae
Nymphaeaceae
Illicium
Trimenia
Austrobaileyayles

Question 2

• aquatic rhizomatous herbs
• simple hairs produce mucilage
• flowers on long pedicle
• outcrossing often brought about via protogyny

Answer 2

Nymphaeaceae

Water lily family

Question 3

protogygny

Answer 3

The condition of flowers whose female parts mature before the male ones

Question 4

Magnoliales
Laurales - laurels and cinnamon
Canellales - winter bark
Piperales - pepper
What's the clade?

Answer 4

Mannoliid Clade

Question 5

-more closely related to monocots and eudicots than to basal angiosperms
-most easily recognized by the retention of plesiomorphic characters
What clade?

Answer 5

Magnoliids

Question 6

What are the two familes under the class Magnoliales?

Answer 6

Magnoliaceae

Annonaceae

Question 7

Magnolia
Liriodendron
-radial symetry
6 or more tepal
many anthers
many carpels, superior
What family?

Answer 7

Magnoliaceae (Magnolia family)

Order: Magnoliales

Question 8

Trees, shrubs, or lianas. Fibrous bark. Alternate leaves. Leaves simple, entire, often short petioled. Radial symetry, 3 sepals, 6 petals, many anthers, 3 to many carpels that are superior and some are adnate.
What family?

Answer 8

Annonaceae (Pawpaw family)
Order: Magnoliales
pawpaw family
i.e., Asimina, Deeringothanmnus, Annona

Question 9

• 1 cotyledon
• scattered vascular bundles in stems
• parallel leaf venation
• adventitious root system
• herbs

Answer 9

Monocots

Question 10

Orders:

Alismatales
Liliales 
Asparagales
Commelinales
Arecales
Poales
Whats the clade?

Answer 10

Monocot Clade

Question 11

Order: Alismatales

What are the three families?

Answer 11

Araceae
Alismataceae
Potamogetonaceae

Question 12

Stems with small scales or glandular hairs within sheathing leaf bases. Extrorse anthers. Large, green embryo.
What is the Order?

Answer 12

Alismatales

Question 13

-terrestrial or aquatic herbs
-indeterminate inflorescences
-spadix=spike of flowers
-spathe=leaf-like bract subtending the spadix
-mostly tropical to subtropical
What is the family?

Answer 13

Araceae (Arum family)

Question 14

-Aquatic or wetland rhizomatous herbs (mostly tropical)
-Laticifers with white latex
-flowers on a scape (raceme)
-petals look crumpled
What is the family?

Answer 14

Alismataceae (water plantain family)

Question 15

-aquatic, rhizomatous herbs
-appendage below anther looks like a fleshy perianth
What is the family?

Answer 15

Potamogetonaceae (pondweed family)

Question 16

-inferior ovary
-inner seed coat collapsed (or degraded), black outer seed coat
What is the order?

Answer 16

Asparagales

Question 17

What are the two families under the order Liliales?

Answer 17

Smilacaceae

Liliaceae

Question 18

-spots on tepals
-nectaries at the base of tepals or stamens
What order is this?

Answer 18

Liliales

Question 18

-spots on tepals
-nectaries at the base of tepals or stamens
What’s the order

Answer 18

Liliales

Question 19

-herbs with bulbs and contractile roots
-spring blooming
-leaves are alternate and spiral or whorled
-leaves are along stem or basal rosette
Radial symetry, T6, A6, G3 (superior, connate)
What family?

Answer 19

Liliaceae (lily family

Erythronium, Lillium, Tulipa

Question 20

-dioecious vines
-leaves alternate and spiral
-palmate venation
-pair of tentrils near petiole base
*, T6 sometimes connate, A0, G3 superior, connate.
*, T6 sometimes connate, A6, sepals and petals adnate, G0
What family?

Answer 20

Smilacaceae (catbrier family)

Smilax hispida

Question 21

-sclereids in the placenta
-tannin cells in the perianth
-sequence data
What order?

Answer 21

Commelinales

Question 22

-herbs (sometimes succulent)
-+- swollen at the nodes
-often have mucilage cells
-tetracyctic stomata
-seeds with conspicuous conical cap
-*, K3, C3 sometimes connate, A3 or 6, G3 connate and superior
What is the family?

Answer 22

Commelinaceae (spiderwort family)

Commelina, Tradescantia

Question 23

-rhizomatous wetland or aquatic herbs
-unisexual flowers, monoecious plants
-both the rhizomes and inflorescences are edible
*, T1-many (S. connate), A1-8, G0
*, T3-many, A0, G1 superior
What family?

Answer 23

Typhaceae (cattail family)

Spaganium, Typha

Question 24

-herbs (often rhizomotous)
-round, solid stems
-alternate, 3-ranked leaves
-leaves basal or along lower portion of the stem
*, T6, A(3)6, G3 superior connate
What family?

Answer 24

Juncaceae (rush family)

Juncus, Luzula
Juncus interior