Nomenclature

Question 0

Anther

Answer 0

Pollen bearing portion of a stamen

Question 1

Androecium

Answer 1

Collective name for all stamens in a flower

Question 2

Axil

Answer 2

Upper angle formed between a leaf and a stem.

Question 3

Blade

Answer 3

Broad, flattened part of the leaf

Question 4

Receptacle

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Corolla

Answer 5

Collective name for all of the petals of a flower

Question 6

Sepal

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Calyx

Answer 7

Collective name for all sepals in a flower

Question 8

Tepals

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Perianth

Answer 9

Petals and sepals combined. (Corolla and calyx)

Question 10

Pistil

Answer 10

Female reproductive part of the flower

Question 11

Gynoecium

Answer 11

All pistils in a flower

Question 12

Three parts of a pistil

Answer 12

Ovary, style and stigma

Question 13

Ovules

Answer 13

Immature seeds

Question 14

Carpels

Answer 14

Enclose the ovules

Question 15

Stamen

Answer 15

Male reproductive part of a flower

Question 16

Androecium

Answer 16

Collective name for all stamens

Question 17

Filament and anther

Answer 17

Two parts of a stamen

Question 18

Inflorescence

Answer 18

Flower made up of several florets

Question 19

Peduncle

Answer 19

Stem or stalk of an inflorescence

Question 20

Pedicels

Answer 20

Stems supporting single flowers in an inflorescence.

Question 21

Bract

Answer 21

Small leaves on an inflorescence

Question 22

Spike flower

Answer 22

Has a long inflorescence on the same stem.

Question 23

Flowers that are sessile

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Raceme

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Panicle

Answer 25

Loose, irregularly branched flower cluster (like heather)

Question 26

Corymb

Answer 26

Flat top, pedicels are of unequal length

Question 27

Cyme

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Umbel

Answer 28

Umbrella shaped inflorescence

Question 29

Spadix

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Spathe

Answer 30

The large bract (modified leaf) protecting the spadix

Question 31

Catkin

Answer 31

Scaly bract, droopy, spike-like inflorescence

Question 32

Head flower/capitulum

Answer 32

Short,dense cluster of florets

Question 33

Disc and ray flowers

Answer 33

Two types of flowers in a sun flower

Question 34

Scapose

Answer 34

Leafless flower stalk (like on a Gerbera)

Question 35

Leaflets

Answer 35

Smaller leaves that make up a compound leaf

Question 36

Three parts of a leaf

Answer 36

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

Question 37

Three types of leaf venation

Answer 37

Parallel, pinnate, palmate