Forb and woody plants inflorescence, flowers, and fruits

Question 1

spike

Answer 1

inflorescence type where flowers are attached sessile to plant stem

Question 2

raceme

Answer 2

inflorescence type where flowers are attached pedicellate to plant stem

Question 3

panicle

Answer 3

inflorescence type where flower are attached to a main stem by branching and rebranching pedicels

Question 4

simple umbel

Answer 4

inflorescence where pedicels fan out from a single point and form a flat line superiorly, like the shape of an upside down umbrella

Question 5

compound umbel

Answer 5

same shape as the simple umbel, but pedicels rebranch to hold several flowers near the terminal end

Question 6

cyme

Answer 6

inflorescence type where pedicels all branch from the same point, but flowers do not align in nor form a uniform, upside-down umbrella shape

Question 7

simple corymb

Answer 7

simple racemose inflorescence that is flat-topped; an indeterminate inflorescence

Question 8

compound corymb

Answer 8

corymb shape, but with branching pedicels

Question 9

catkin

Answer 9

dense spike or raceme with many small flowers

Question 10

head

Answer 10

dense cluster of sessile or nearly sessile flowers on a short or common axis; an inflorescence type

Question 11

zygomorphic

Answer 11

flower type. Irregular, divisible into equal parts in only 1 plane

Question 12

actinomorphic

Answer 12

flower type. Symmetrical, regular; divisible into equal parts in 2 or more planes

Question 13

anther

Answer 13

part of a stamen in which pollen develops

Question 14

filament

Answer 14

stalk of a stamen supporting the anther; a threadlike structure

Question 15

stigma

Answer 15

apical portion of the pistil that receives the pollen

Question 16

ovary

Answer 16

expanded basal part of the pistil that contains the ovules

Question 17

style

Answer 17

slender, elongated portion of the pistil which bears the stigma at its apex

Question 18

sepal

Answer 18

member of the calyx bracts, usually green and subtending the petals

Question 19

ray flower

Answer 19

the little flowerets in the middle of a ray and disk flower

Question 20

disk flower

Answer 20

the petal flowerets of the ray and disk flower

Question 21

peduncle

Answer 21

stock of a flower cluster or spikelet cluster

Question 22

drupe

Answer 22

fruit with a stone in the middle

Question 23

pome

Answer 23

many-seeded fruit, receptacle forms the outer, fleshy portion (i.e. an apple)

Question 24

berry

Answer 24

fleshy fruit developing from a single pistil with several or many seeds

Question 25

achenes

Answer 25

dry, 1-seeded, indehiscent fruit with a relatively thin wall in which the seed coat is not fused to the overy wall except at one point at the base

Question 26

schizocarp

Answer 26

dry, dehiscent fruit consisting usually of 2 or more carpels that, when mature, split apart forming 1-seeded parts (mericarps)

Question 27

capsule

Answer 27

dry, dehiscent fruit fruit of more than 1 carpel with more than 2 seeds

Question 28

loment

Answer 28

the two-seeded edamame pod

Question 29

legume

Answer 29

the thing that looks like a pea pod