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Nomenclature Flashcards

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Anther

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Pollen bearing portion of a stamen

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Androecium

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Collective name for all stamens in a flower

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Axil

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Upper angle formed between a leaf and a stem.

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Blade

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Broad, flattened part of the leaf

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Receptacle

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Stem tip that bears all parts of a botanically complete flower: petals, sepals, pistils, stamens

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Corolla

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Collective name for all of the petals of a flower

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Sepal

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Outermost part of a flower that protects other flower parts while they are in a bud

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Calyx

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Collective name for all sepals in a flower

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Tepals

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When sepals and petals look the same (like in tulips)

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Perianth

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Petals and sepals combined. (Corolla and calyx)

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Pistil

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Female reproductive part of the flower

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Gynoecium

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All pistils in a flower

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Three parts of a pistil

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Ovary, style and stigma

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Ovules

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Immature seeds

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Carpels

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Enclose the ovules

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Stamen

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Male reproductive part of a flower

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Androecium

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Collective name for all stamens

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Filament and anther

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Two parts of a stamen

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Inflorescence

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Flower made up of several florets

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Peduncle

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Stem or stalk of an inflorescence

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Pedicels

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Stems supporting single flowers in an inflorescence.

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Bract

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Small leaves on an inflorescence

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Spike flower

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Has a long inflorescence on the same stem.

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Flowers that are sessile

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In a true spike inflorescence when the flowers are attached to the stem without pedicels

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Raceme

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Inflorescence kind of like a spike, except the flowers aren’t sessile.

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Panicle

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Loose, irregularly branched flower cluster (like heather)

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Corymb

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Flat top, pedicels are of unequal length

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Cyme

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An inflorescence where each terminal growing point produces flowers (like baby’s breath)

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Umbel

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Umbrella shaped inflorescence

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Spadix

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Thick, swollen spike of unstalked flowers (like a Cala Lily)

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Spathe

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The large bract (modified leaf) protecting the spadix

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Catkin

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Scaly bract, droopy, spike-like inflorescence

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Head flower/capitulum

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Short,dense cluster of florets

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Disc and ray flowers

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Two types of flowers in a sun flower

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Scapose

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Leafless flower stalk (like on a Gerbera)

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Leaflets

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Smaller leaves that make up a compound leaf

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Three parts of a leaf

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Blade (leaf), petiole (leaf stalk), stipules (appendages at the base of the petiole

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Three types of leaf venation

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Parallel, pinnate, palmate

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