Morphology Of Flowering Plants Flashcards
Apocarpous - multiple carpel free
Lotus rose
Syncarpous - multiple carpels fused
Mustard tomato
Placentation - arrangement of ovules within the ovary
Marginal - pea
Axile - china rose, tomato and lemon
Parietal - argemone
Free central - dianthus primrose
Basal - sunflower marigold
Phyllotaxy
Pattern of arrangement of leaves on the stem or branch
Alternate phyllotaxy
China rose, mustard and sunflower
Opposite phyllotaxy
Calotropis and guava
Whorled phyllotaxy
Alstonia
Inflorescence
Arrangement of flowers on floral axis
Racemose main axis continues to grow flowers borne laterally in acropetal order
Cymose main axis terminates in a flower in basipetal order
Actinomorphic radial symmetry of flower
Mustard datura chilli
Zygomorphic bilateral symmetry
Pea beans gulmohar cassia
Asymmetrical flower
Canna
Hypogynous flower
Mustard china rose brinjal
Perigynous flower
Plum rose peach
Epigynous flower
Ray florets of sunflower cucumber guava
Aestivation arrangement of petal or sepals in a floral bud
Valvate calotropis
Twisted china rose lady’s finger cotton
Imbricate cassia gulmohar
Vexillary or papilionaceous 1 standard 2wings 2keel