Morphology Of Flowering Plant 1 Flashcards
Storage root
Tap root of carrot, turnip, and adventitious root of swollen sweet potato
Respiratory root
Pneumatophores, veritically upward…
Eg- Rhizopora ( Mangroove)
Prop root
Banyan, Ficus benghalensis
Slit root
Sugar cane , maize
Root hair
Epidermal cell that increase surface area
Velamen tissue
Velamen tissue are root used to absorb moisture from arieal part
Bud
Under developed compact shoott
Terminal/ apical bud:: tip, growth of stem and branches
Axillary bud: leaf angle is axil
Stem modification
1 underground stem 2 stem tendrils 3 thorn 4 sub aerial weak 5 aerial 6 cladode
Under ground
Rhizome: ginger, banana, turmeric, ferns
Tuber: potato,
Corm: cccga
Bulb: onion, garlic, Lily
Corm
Cccga
Colocasia, colchicum. Corcus, gladiolus, amorphaphallus
Thorns
Citrus, Bougainvillea (BAkUGo)
Sub aerial weak
Offset: (P.E) Pistia, eichhornia (short internode)
Sucker: pineapple, banana, Chrysanthemum( viroids)
Runners: grass, oxalis (long internode)
Stolons: jasmine, mint
Aerial
Arid region
Flattened stem- opuntia, fleshy- euphorbia [PHYLLOCLADE]
Unlimited growth
Cladode
1 internode
Stem is Leaf structure, asparagus, ruscus
Bulbi
Fleshy bud is called bulbi