INFLORESCENCES EXAM 2 Flashcards
AXILLARY
An inflourescence that arises from a leaf axil or intersection
What part of a plant is a BRACHT?
A part above the leaves but BELOW the flower.
Usually a part of the plant that doesn’t look like a petal HOWEVER pointsettia, the large bright colored petals are brachts to attract pollinator to small flowers above them. jack-in-the-pulpit, skunk cabbage, dogwood and love-in-the-mist use brachts as protective hoods.
What is a CATKIN?
Catkins allow the trees to reproduce using wind to exchange pollen. Catkins named because they look like a kitten’s tail. Some catkins turn into tree nuts or cones.
What is a COMPOSITE HEAD?
Flowers that are composed by two types of flowers
What is a COMPOUND UMBEL?
A flower head in which all flower stalks are the same length so that the flower head forms an umbrella shape
What is a CORYMB?
What is a CYATHIUM?
Examples are Pointsettia and Spurge
What us a DICHASIAL CYME?
A dichasium is one unit of a cyme and is characterised by a stunted central flower and two lateral flowers on elongated pedicels
What is a PANICLE?
A panicle is a multi branched infloresence
What is a PEDICLE?
A single structure that connects a flower to its inflorescence
What is a PEDUNCLE?
The main stalk of an inflorescence
What is a RACEME?
An Indeterminate infloresence (you gest flowers at the top of elingated axis) in which the single axis bears pedicillate flowers (a flower which has a pedicil or stalk)
What is a SCORPIOID CYME?
A cyme where the axis is curved and flowers are on one side of axis
What is a SOLITARY?
A flower that is not part if an inflorescence, it is alone
What are the SPATHE and SPADIX?
A type of inflorescence found in ARACEAE (
What is a SPIKE?
What is an UMBEL?
A flower cluster in which stalks of nearly equal length grow from a common center point
