Botany quiz III Flashcards
ANITA grade
Amborellaaceae Nymphaeaceae Illicium Trimenia Austrobaileyayles
- aquatic rhizomatous herbs
- simple hairs produce mucilage
- flowers on long pedicle
- outcrossing often brought about via protogyny
Nymphaeaceae
Water lily family
protogygny
The condition of flowers whose female parts mature before the male ones
Magnoliales Laurales - laurels and cinnamon Canellales - winter bark Piperales - pepper What's the clade?
Mannoliid Clade
-more closely related to monocots and eudicots than to basal angiosperms
-most easily recognized by the retention of plesiomorphic characters
What clade?
Magnoliids
What are the two familes under the class Magnoliales?
Magnoliaceae
Annonaceae
Magnolia Liriodendron -radial symetry 6 or more tepal many anthers many carpels, superior What family?
Magnoliaceae (Magnolia family)
Order: Magnoliales
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?
Annonaceae (Pawpaw family)
Order: Magnoliales
pawpaw family
i.e., Asimina, Deeringothanmnus, Annona
- 1 cotyledon
- scattered vascular bundles in stems
- parallel leaf venation
- adventitious root system
- herbs
Monocots
Orders:
Alismatales Liliales Asparagales Commelinales Arecales Poales Whats the clade?
Monocot Clade
Order: Alismatales
What are the three families?
Araceae
Alismataceae
Potamogetonaceae
Stems with small scales or glandular hairs within sheathing leaf bases. Extrorse anthers. Large, green embryo.
What is the Order?
Alismatales
-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?
Araceae (Arum family)
-Aquatic or wetland rhizomatous herbs (mostly tropical)
-Laticifers with white latex
-flowers on a scape (raceme)
-petals look crumpled
What is the family?
Alismataceae (water plantain family)
-aquatic, rhizomatous herbs
-appendage below anther looks like a fleshy perianth
What is the family?
Potamogetonaceae (pondweed family)
-inferior ovary
-inner seed coat collapsed (or degraded), black outer seed coat
What is the order?
Asparagales
What are the two families under the order Liliales?
Smilacaceae
Liliaceae
-spots on tepals
-nectaries at the base of tepals or stamens
What order is this?
Liliales
-spots on tepals
-nectaries at the base of tepals or stamens
What’s the order
Liliales
-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?
Liliaceae (lily family
Erythronium, Lillium, Tulipa
-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?
Smilacaceae (catbrier family)
Smilax hispida
-sclereids in the placenta
-tannin cells in the perianth
-sequence data
What order?
Commelinales
-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?
Commelinaceae (spiderwort family)
Commelina, Tradescantia
-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?
Typhaceae (cattail family)
Spaganium, Typha
-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?
Juncaceae (rush family)
Juncus, Luzula
Juncus interior
