exam 3 Flashcards
angiosperms
“angio” = vessel
angiosperms are plants with seeds in a vessel
carpels/ovary wall becomes pericarp (fruit)
angiosperm families
approximately 15 families account for 70% of the plant species in southern california (and much of the rest of the world)
- families are the ‘unit’ of pattern recognition for angiosperms
- to identify families, focus on what is different between the species
chenopodiacea
- eudicots
halophytic herbs, often fleshy, with minute green flowers and an unilocular gynoecium with a singular ovule
polygonaceae
-eudicots
- herbs with swollen nodes, ocreaea (fused stipules that cover the nodes) or involucrate heads, petaloid calyx, and a lens-shaped or triangular achene, often black (can be confused with monocots because of the 3-merous nature of petaloid sepals)
brassicaceae
monocots
- herbs with acrid taste, flowers of 4 sepals, 4 petals, 6 stamens, gynoecium of 2 united carpels with a false septum. fruit a dehiscent silique (if 3 or more times longer than wide) or silicone (if short and squatty)
onagraceae
-monocots
- 4-merous herbs with an inferior ovary and hypanthium. pollen ‘cobwebby’
fabaceae
three subfamilies
1. Pea subfamily –> Papilionoideae and Faboideae
2. Cassia subfamily –> Caesalpinioideae
3. Acacia subfamily –> Mimisoideae
herbs, shrubs, vines and trees with alternate, stipulate, compound leaves. flowers actinomorphic or zygomorphic, 5 merous, unicarpellate, fruit a legume or loment
fabaceae – Pea subfamily
-monocots
- Papilionoideae
- has a banner, keel, and wing, 9 stamens fused by filaments and then a single free stamen
fabaceae – Cassia subfamily
-monocot
- Caesalpinioideae
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fabaceae – Acacia subfamily
-monocot
- mimisoideae
- puff ball looking
rosaceae
-monocots
- three subfamilies
a. Rosoideae
b. dryadoideae
c. amygdaloideae : spiraoideae, prunoideae, maloideae
5 sepals, 5 petals, numerous stamens, serrated leaves. stems often with prickles, stipules on twig or on base of petiole. leaves alternate. perianth and stamens united at based into a cup (hypanthium), sepals and petals free,, ovary superior to inferior, filaments free
rosoideae
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dryadoideae
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amygdaloideae
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- prunoideae
-spiraeoideae
-maloideae
Prunoideae
-stipules present
- carpel = 1
-ovary = superior
- fruit = drupe
Spiraeoideae
- stipules absent
- carpels = 2-5
- ovary = superior
- fruit = follicle, capsule
maloideae
- stipules present
- carpel = 2-5
- ovary = inferior
- fruit = pome
boraginaceae
-eudicots
- bristly herbs with alternate leaves and round stems with coiled cymes of 5-merous often blue (white or yellow in CA) flowers: gynoecium bicarpellate, ovary 4-lobed, style arising from among the lobes
hydrophyllaceae
- monocots
- usually bristly herbs with coiled cymose inflorescences of 5-merous, synsepalous, sympetalous flowers with a bicarpellate, unilocular gynoecium. this family is most easily confused with the Boraginaceae of which it is sometimes classified as a subfamily. it differs from the Boraginaceae in having numerous ovules on parietal placentae and unlobed ovary. often 2 style branches
polemoniaceae
- monocot
- herbs and shrubs with 5-merous, synsepalous, sympetalous flowers, the 5 stamens epipetalous and the gynoecium tricarpellate. stamen 3 branches helps field distinction from Boraginaceae and Hydrophyllaceae
lamiaceae
-monocots
- herbs and shrubs with square stems, opposite leaves, a ‘minty’ aroma and 5-merous zygomorphic flowers with 2 or 4 epipetalous stamens; if 4 usually didynamous. deeply 4-lobed ovary with gynobasic style.
scrophulariaceae
-monocots
leaves mostly opposite or alternate, often opposite becoming alternate upwards, without stipules. Flowers mostly irregular; corolla tubular, 4-5 lobed, often 2-lipped (upper lip 2 lobed, lower lip 3 lobed). stamens often 4, 2 usually longer than the other 2 inserted in corolla tube. ovary superior. fruit in a 2-locular capsule, often with numerous seeds
old generalized scrophulariaceae is no more –> most species moved to orobanchaeae, phyrmaceae, and plantaginaceae
orobanchaceae
-monocots
-scroph-like, holoparasitic (and lacking chlorophyll) or hemiparasitic (have chlorophyll) on other plants, flowers may be highly modified and contorted