Morphology of Flowering Plants Flashcards
Root system found in dicotyledons?
Tap root system
Roots that originate from the base of the stem found in monocotyledons?
Fibrous root system
Roots that arise from parts of the plant other than the radicle are called?
Adventitious roots
In which region of root thread like structures called root hairs are present?
Region of Maturation
Thimble like structure covering the apex of root is known as
Root cap
Examples of tap root modification for storage of food
Carrot and turnip
Examples of adventitious root modification for storage of food
Sweet potato
Hanging structures that support the banyan tree are called
Prop roots
Examples of stilt roots
Maize and Sugarcane
Roots found in Rhizophora which helps in getting oxygen for respiration is known as
Pneumatophores
Underground stems modified to store food
Ginger, Tumeric, Potato, Colocasia and Zaminkand
Stem modification which hepls plant to climb
Tendrils
Examples of stem modifications as thorns
Bougainvilles and Citrus
Stem modified into chlorophyll containing flattened structures to carry out photosynthesis found in
Optunia
Stem modified into chlorophyll containing fleshy cylindrical structures to carry out photosynthesis found in
Euphorbia
Name the aquatic plants in which lateral branch with short internodes and each node bearing rosette of leaves and a tuff roots are found
Pistia and Eichhornia
Leaf bears a bud in its axil known as
Axillary bud
The leaf is attached to the stem by the
Leaf base
The leaf bear two lateral small leaf-like structures called
Stipules
In some leguminous plants the leaf base may become swollen, which is known as
Pulvinus
The green expanded part of the leaf with veins and veinlets are known as
Lamina or leaf blade
The arrangement of veins and the veinlets in the lamina of leaf is termed as
Venation
When the veinlets form a network, the venation is termed as
Reticulate venation
When the veins run parallel to each other within a lamina, the venation is termed as
Parallel venation
When the incisions of the lamina reach up to the midrib breaking it into a number of leaflets, the leaf is called
Compound leaf
Example of palmately compound leaf
Silk cotton
Opposite phyllotaxy is seen in
Calotropis and Guava
Whorled phyllotaxy is seen in
Alstonia
Example of plant in which leaves are modified into tendrils
Peas
Modification of leaves into fleshy leaves to store food
Onion and Garlic
When a shoot tip transforms into a flower, it is always
Solitary
Inflorescences in which main axis continues to grow the flowers are borne laterally in an acropetal succession
Racemose
Infloresence in which the main axis terminates in flower is limited in growth
Cymose
Reproductive unit in the angiosperms
flower
Swollen end of the stalk or pedicel
thalamus or receptacle
When the flower has both androceium and gynoecium it is known as
bisexual
When a flower having either only stamens or only carpels is known as
Unisexual
Examples of Actinomorphic flower
Mustard, datura and chilli
Examples of Zygomorphic flower
Pea, gulmohur, bean and Cassia
Flower that cannot be divided into two similar halves by any vertical plane passing through the centre,
Asymmetric
Flower with bracts are called
Bracteate
Flowers in which the gynoecium occupies the highest position while the other part is situated below it, known as
Hypogynous
If gynoecium is situated in the centre and the other part of the flower are located on the rim of the thalamus almost at the same level level, it is called
Perigynous
Flowers in which the margin of thalamus grows upward enclosing the ovary completely and getting fused with it and the other parts of the flower arise above the ovary, are
Epigynous flowers
Examples of inferior ovary
Flowers of guava and cucumber and the ray florets of sunflower
Calyx, when sepals are united, is
Gamosepalous
Calyx is called as when sepals are free
polysepalous
When sepals or petals in the whorl just touch one another at the margin, without overlapping it is said to be
Valvate
Example of valvate aestivation is
Calotropis
If one margin of the appendage overlap of the next one and so on, it is called
twisted
Example of twisted aestivation
China rose, lady finger and Cotton
If the margins of sepals or petals overlap one another but not in particular direction is known as
Imbricate Aestivation
Examples of vexillary or papilionaceous aestivation
Pea and bean
A sterile stamen is called
staminode
Epipetalous stamens are found in
Brinjal
When stamens are attached to the petals, they are called
epipetalous
When stamens are attached to the perianth, they are called
epiphyllous
Epiphyllous stamens are found in
Lily
When stamens in a flower are free, they are called
polyandrous
When the stamens are united into one bunch or one bundle, they are known as
monoadelphous
When the stamens may be united into two bundles, they are known as
Diadelphous
When the stamens may be united into more than two bundles, they are known as
polyadelphous
Variation in length of filaments within flower is seen in
Salvina and mustard
When more than one carpels are present and they are free, are called as
apocarpous
When more than one carpels are present and they are fused, are called as
syncarpous
Examples of syncarpous carpel
mustard and tomato
The arrangement of ovules within the ovary is known as
placentation
Examples of marginal placentation
Pea
When the placentation is axial and the ovules are attached to it in a multilocular ovary, the placentation is said to be
axile
Example of axile placentation
china rose, tomato and lemon
In ___ placentation the ovules develop on the inner wall of the ovary or on peripheral part
parietal
Examples of parietal placentation
mustard and Argemone
Examples of free central placentation
Dianthus and primose
When the ovules are borne on central axis and septa are absent, the placentation is called
free central
When the placenta develops at the base of ovary and a single ovule is attached to it, the placentation is called
basal placentation
Examples of plants showing basal placentation
sunflower, marigold
If a fruit is formed without fertilization of the ovary, it is called a
parenthenocarpic fruit
Examples of drupe
mango and coconut
Fruit that is developed from monocarpellary superior ovaries and are one seeded, are known as
drupe
In some seeds such as castor the endosperm formed as a result of double fertilization, is a food storing tissue and called
endospermic seeds
Examples of non endospermous seeds
bean, gram and pea
In plants such as bean, gram and pea, the endosperm is not present in mature seeds and such seeds are called
nonendospermous
The outer covering of endosperm separates the embryo by a proteinous layer called
aleurone layer
In monocot seeds, plumule is enclosed within a sheath called
coleoptile