Flower Flashcards

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Flower definition

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Shortened shoot, modified for sexual reproduction witin angiosperms

Reproduction organs: stamen + carpels

Production and protection of embryo

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Flower Parts:
Floral stalk

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Pedicel

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Flower Parts:
Region where other floral parts are attached

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Receptacle

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Flower Parts:
reduced leaf often on side of the pedicel

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bract

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Flower Parts:
outermost non-reproductive group of modified leaves of a flower

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Perianth

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Type of Perianth:
outermost floral appendage; assemblage of sepals is the calyx

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Sepals

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Type of Perianth:
innermost whorl of colored modified leaves for attraction; forms the corolla

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Petals

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Flower Parts:
refers to all male organs; microsporophyll

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Andromecium/stamen

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Type of Androecium/Stamen:
stalk-like

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Filament

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Type of Androecium/Stamen:
pollen-bearing part

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Anther

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Flower Part:
refers to all female organs; megasporophyll

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Gynoecium/carpel

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Type of Gynoecium/Carpel:
catches pollen grains

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Stigma

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Type of Gynoecium/Carpel:
elevates the stigma

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Style

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Type of Gynoecium/Carpel:
where megaspores are produced

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Ovary

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Flower Whorls:
With 4 whorls: sepal, petal, stamen, and carpel

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Complete

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Flower whorls:
flower lacking 1 ore more of the 4 major whorl parts

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incomplete

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Flower attachment:
With pedicel

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Pedicellate

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Flower attachment:
lacking a pedicel

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Sessile

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Flower attachment:
having a short, rudimentary pedicel

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subsessile

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What do you call the opening of anthers?

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Anthesis

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Flower maturation:
refers to stamens developing first, or pollen release occurring first

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Protandry

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Flower maturation:
refers to when carpels or stigmas develop first before stamens mature or pollen is released

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Protogyny

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Flower maturation:
Flower in which the perianth remains closed at maturity; auto-fertilization

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Cleistogamy

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Flower maturation:
Normal situation where the perianth opens at maturity and pollen may be dispersed

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Chasmogamy

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Flower symmetry: 3 or more planes of symmetry
Actinomorphic/radial symmetry
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Flower symmetry: only one plane of symmetry
Zygomorphic/bilateral/monosymmetric/irregular symmetry
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Flower symmetry: lacks and plane of symmetry; twisting parts
Asymmetric
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Steps to floral development: What model is it patterned in?
ABC model: bracts, calyx, corolla, androecium, and gynoecium
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Male Reproductive Structures: 4 steps of formation of pollen grains
Microsporophylls bear microsporangia that contain microspores and differentiated into pollen grains.
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Male Reproductive Structures: One anther consists of?
four microsporangia two thecae (singular theca)
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Where can stamens be attached to? name all 3
Receptacle, corolla, hypanthium rim
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Stamen types: Filament + anther
Filamentous
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Stamen types: stamen is flattened structure with two thecae on the adaxial surface
Laminar
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Stamen types: non fertile stamen
Staminode/staminodium
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Stamen arrangement: with stamens arranged in a spiral
Spiral
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Stamen arrangement: with stamens in one or more discrete whorls or series
Whorled
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Stamen arrangement: with stamens in two unequal pairs
Didynamous
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Stamen arrangement: With stamens in two groups of four long and two short
Tetradynamous
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Stamen arrangement: with stamens in two equal pairs
Didymous
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Stamen arrangement: with stamens in two equal pairs
Didymous
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Stamen verticil: single whorl of stamens
Uniseriate
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Stamen verticil: two whorls of stamens
Biseriate
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Stamen position: opposite to sepals, calyx lobes, or outer whorl of tepals
Antisepalous
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Stamen position: stamens positioned between petals or corolla lobes
alternipetalous
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Stamen position: stamen position opposite to the petals, corolla lobes, or inner whorl of petals
antipetalous
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Stamen position: stamens positioned between the sepals or calyx lobes
alternisepalous
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Stamen position: stamens uniseriate, equal in number to petals, and opposite the SEPALS (antisepalous)
Haplostemonous
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Stamen position: stamens uniseriate, equal in number to the petals, and opposite the PETALS (antipetalous)
obhalostemonous
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Stamen position: stamens biseriate, the outer whorl opposite the SEPALS and the inner whorl opposite petals
Diplostemonous
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Stamen position: stamen biseriate, the outer whorl opposite the PETALS, the inner opposite sepals
Obdiplostemonous
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Stamen insertion: with stamens protruding beyond the perianth
Exserted
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Stamen insertion: with stamens included within the perianth
Inserted
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Stamen fusion (General terms): unfused to one another
Distinct
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Stamen fusion (General terms): fused to one another
connate
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Stamen fusion (General terms): unfused to a different structure
free
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Stamen fusion (General terms): fused to a different structure
adnate
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Stamen fusion: with stamens unfused (both distinct and free)
apostemonous
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Stamen fusion: with stamens adnate to petals or the corolla
epipetalous
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Stamen fusion: with two groups of stamens, each connate by filaments only
diadelphous
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Stamen fusion: with stamens connate by their filaments
monoadelphous
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Stamen fusion: with anthers connate but filaments distinct
syngenesious
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Anther types: having two thecae with typically four microsporangia anthers
dithecal
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Anther types: having one theca with typically two microsporangia
monothecal
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Anther types: typical dithecal anther in which all pollen grains of both thecae are fused together as a single mass
pollinium
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Anther attachment: anther attached at its base to apex of the filament (standard)
basifixed
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Anther attachment: anther attached dorsally and medially to the apex of the filament
dorsifixed
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Anther attachment: anther attached near its base to the apex of the filament
subbasifixed
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Anther attachment: anther freely pivots at the point of attachment with the filament
versatile
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Anther dehiscence type: dehiscing along a structure parallel to the long axis of the thecae (most common)
longitudinal
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Anther dehiscence type: dehiscing by a pore at one end of the thecae
poricidal
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Anther dehiscence type: dehiscing at right angles to the long axis of the theca
transverse
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Anther dehiscence type: dehicing through a pore covered by a flap of tissue
valvular
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Anther dehiscence direction: dehiscing outward away from the flower center
extorse
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Anther dehiscence direction: dehiscing inward, toward the flower center
intorse
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Anther dehiscence direction: dehiscing laterally to the sides
latrorse
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Female reproductive structure: what is carpel
modified leaf, a megasporophyll bearing the megasporangia
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Collection of carpels fused or not togther
Pistil: terminal stigma, elongated style, basal ovary
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Parts of ovary: where ovules are produced
placenta
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Parts of ovary: precursor of seed
ovules
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Parts of ovary: attaches the ovule to the ovary wall
funiculus
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Parts of ovary: encloses the nucellus (always two integuments)
integuments
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Parts of ovary: opening in integument
micropyle
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Parts of ovary: megasporangium
nucellus
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4 orientation of ovules:
anatrophous ortho” campylo” amphi”
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Floral morphology: part of gynoecium composed of an ovary. one or more styles, and or one or more stigmas
pistil
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Floral morphology: contains the ovules
ovary
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Floral morphology: stalk-like, non ovule bearing portion of pistil
style
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Floral morphology: pollen receptive portion of pistil
stigma
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Ovary attachment: cuplike or tubular enlargement of the receptacle loosely surrounding the gynoecium or united with it
Hypanthium
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Style position: one arising at the ovary apex
terminal/apical
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Style position: arises to one side, near and slightly below the ovary apex
subapical
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Style position: one arising at the side of an ovary
Lateral
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Style position: arises from the base of the ovary
Gynobasic
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Stigma: disk shaped
discoid
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Stigma: spherical in shape
globose
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Stigma: stigmatic tissue are long and narrow
Linear
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Stigma: feathery, trichome-like extensions, often found in wind-pollinated taxa
Plumose
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Floral Morphology: Outermost, nonreproductive group of modified leaves; calyx and corolla
Perianth
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Perianth verticil: which there are two discrete whorls, an outer and an inner
Biseriate
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Perianth verticil: with perianth parts in a single whorl
Uniseriate
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Perianth cycly: perianth composed of a distinct outer calyx and inner corolla; mostly in eudicots
Dichlamydeous
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Perianth cycly: perianth composed of similar parts, each part a tepal; mostly in monocots
Homochlamydeous
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Perianth merosity: having same number of members in different whorls
Isomerous
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Perianth merosity: having different number of members in different whorls
Anisomerous
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Floral morphology: nectar-producing structures of the flower
Nectaries
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Floral morphology: solution of sugars and various other compounds and functions as an attractant to promote animal pollination
Nectar
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Flower sex: having both stamens and carpels; ancestral trait in angiosperms
Perfect/bisexual/monoclinous
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Flower sex: flower is either staminate or pistillate
Imperfect/unisexual/diclinous
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Plant sex: plant having bisexual flowers
hermaphroditic
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Plant sex: plant with only unisexual flowers, both staminate and pistillate on the same individual plant
monoecious
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Plant sex: plat with unisexual flowers, but with staminate and pistillate on separate individual plant
Dioecious
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Inflorescence: one that subtends not an individual flower but an inflorescence axis or a group of flowers
inflorescence bract
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Inflorescence: an enlarged, sometimes colored bract subtending and usually enclosing an inflorescence
Spathe
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Inflorescence: bristle-like, apical appendage on the glumes or lemmas of grass spikelets
Awn
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Inflorescence: the stalk of an entire inflorescence
Peduncle
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Inflorescence: major, central axis within an inflorescence
Rachis
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Inflorescence position: which the entire inflorescence is positioned in the axil of the nearest vegetative leaf
Auxilliary
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Inflorescence position: in which the inflorescence develops as part of a terminal shoot that gave rise to the nearest vegetative leaves
Terminal
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Inflorescence position: in which the inflorescence grows directly from a woody trunk
Cauliflorous
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Inflorescence development: apical meristem of the primary inflorescence axis terminates in a flower
Determinate
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Inflorescence development: apical meristem of primary inflorescence does not develop into a flower
Indeterminate
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Inflorescence types: three flowered cyme having a single terminal flower and two opposite lateral flowers
Simple dichasium
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Inflorescence types: many flowered cyme of a repeatedly branching simple dichasia units
compound dichasium
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Inflorescence types: branched cyme, similar to a compound dichasium but lacking a consistent dichasial branching pattern
Compound cyme
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Inflorescence types: axes develop on only one side of each sequential axis
Helicoid cyme/bosytryx
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Inflorescence types: branches develop on alternating sides of each sequential axis, typically resulting in a geniculate appreance
scorpioid cyme/cinicinnus
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Inflorescence types: axes develop on only one side of each sequential axis like a helicoid cyme and flowers are on one single plane
Drepanium
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Inflorescence types: branches develop on alternating sides of each sequential axis like scorpioid cymes, flowers located on one single plane
Rhipidium
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Inflorescence types: an indeterminate inflorescence, consisting of a single axis bearing sessile flowers
spike
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Inflorescence types: an indeterminate inflorescence in which the single axis bears pedicellate flowers
raceme
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Inflorescence types: like branched raceme, defined as an indeterminate inflorescence having several branched axes bearing pedicellate flowers
Panicle
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Inflorescence types: unbranched, consisting of a central axis bearing pedicellate flowers being flat-topped or convex
simple corymb
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Inflorescence types: branched, consisting of two or more orders of inflorescence axes bearing flat-topped or convex pedicellate flowers
compound corymb
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Inflorescence types: determinate or indeterminate, flat-topped or convex inflorescence with pedicels attached at one point to a peduncle
simple umbel
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Inflorescence types: racemelike or panicle like inflorescence with pedicellate flowers in which internodes between flowers are very short
Fascicle
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Inflorescence types: inflorescence of sessile or subsessile flowers in which the internodes between flowers are very short
glomerule
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Inflorescence types: raceme of cyes in which the main axis is indeterminate but the oppsite, lateral, unit inflorescences are pedicellate cymes
Thyrse
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Inflorescence types: spike of opposite cymes, similar to a thyrs in having an indeterminate main axis but differing in that the lateral cymes have very reduced to absent internodal axes and pedicels
Verticlliaster
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Inflorescence types: another secondary inflorescence in which the peduncle bears secondary axes called rays that are attached at one point
compound umbel
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Inflorescence types: unisexual, typically male spike or elongate axis that falls as a unit after flowering or fruiting
catkin
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Inflorescence types: bearing small unisexual flowers and subtended by an invlucre, the entire inflorescence resembling a single flower
cyathium
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Inflorescence types: determinate or indeterminate, corwed group of sessile or subsessile flowers on a compound receptacle
head/capitulum
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Inflorescence types: bearing numerous flowers on the inside of a convex or involuted compoind receptacle
Hypanthodium
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Inflorescence types: spike with thickened or fleshy central axis, typically with congested flowers and usually subtended by a spath
spandix
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Inflorescence types: small spike and refers to the basic inflorescence unit.
Spikelet