Plant Morphology Flashcards
Extirpated
No longer surviving in native area, but surviving elsewhere.
Floccose
Being covered in wooly hairs easily rubbed off.
Jugate
Arranged in pairs
Macrophyll
Large leaves produced by ferns and seed plants.
Haustorial Root
Parasitic root that invades stem of another plant to siphon nutrients instead of the soil.
Globose
Round or spherical in shape
Fenestrated
Thinned or with small slots as to be translucent.
Epiphytic
Non-parasitic plants that grow on the canopy of larger plants and do not root in soil.
Adventitious
Organs growing of a plant in areas they normally shouldn’t, such as a root growing from the mid stem.
Abscission
Normal sheddings of an organ that is aged or mature.
Sympodial
When lateral shoot growth takes over after the termination of the apical meristem.
Runcinated
Leaves that have jagged edges pointing back towards the base of the plant. Think of dandelion leaves.
Sporophyll
Leaf or bract that bears sporangia in fern allies, ferns, and gymnosperms
Trullate
Spade shaped leaves where thickest part is closest to main stem.
Stipule
Outgrowth of leaf base connected to the shoot