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Terminology of Flowering Plants Flashcards

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  • Tap Root
  • dicots
  • from embroytic seed
  • carrots and beat
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  • Fibrous root
  • Monocots
  • Adventitious
  • embroytic roots grow a bit then stop
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  • Prop roots
  • Adventitious roots
  • Prop the plant up on unstable soil
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  • Haustorial roots
  • Parasitic plants
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  • Most are Tap roots
  • contains starch
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  • Buttress roots
  • Enlarged and Horizontaly spread
  • Vertically thickened roots at the base of trees that aid in mechanical support
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  • Mangrove
  • roots upright above ground to gather air
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  • Bulb
  • Modifed stem
  • Modifed leaves for food storage
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  • Corm
  • similar to a bulb
  • stem is modifed for food
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  • Fascicle
  • at the end, is a modifed stem
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  • Rhizome
  • modifed stem
  • is horizontal and underground
  • short internodes and bearing scalelike leaves
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  • Stolon(runner)
  • Long internodes that runs on or just below the surface of the ground
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  • Thorn
  • modifed stem
  • leaves are attached to the thorn
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  • Tendril
  • a long, slender, coiling branch, adapted for clmbing
  • a stem that wrap around another
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  • Tuber
  • modifed stem for food
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Standard references for morphological vocabulary?

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  • Taxonomy of Vascular Plants
    • by George H.M. Lawrence
  • Vascular Plant Systematics
    • by Albert E. Radford and his associates
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Reproductive features provide…

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  • most important characters in classification (flower and fruit)
  • evolutionarily conservative (constant)
  • (vegetative varies by environment)
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  • Acaulescent
  • Caulescent
  • No leaves above a certain point
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  • Prostrate
  • Leaning over
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  • Repent
  • root growing down
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  • Decumbent
  • lean over and grow upward
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  • arborescent
  • tree-like
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  • suffrutescent
  • woody
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  1. Node
  2. Lenticles
  3. Leaf Scar/Vascular bundle scars
  4. Terminal Bud Scale Scars
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  1. the place where the leaf come out
  2. Allow gas exchange
  3. Where leaf used to be
  4. Where the twig before
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collateral

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superposed

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  • infrapetiolar
  • the bud is hidden in the stem
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  • Scale
  • modifed for proetection
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  • Phyllodes
  • leaves that are flattened, bladelike petiole
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  • Spine
  • sharp-pointed leaf of leaf part
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  • unifacial leaf
  • flattened side-to-side
  • bending and overlapping
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  • Pitcher
  • shaped like a container, fluid to capture and digest small animals
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  • Tentacular
  • hairs that capture and digest small animals
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trap

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bracts

look like petals?

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simple-leafis one bearing a single, continuous blade

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pinnately compound (pinnate) - leaflets arranged along a central axis(rachis)

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  1. odd-pinnate
  2. even-pinnate
  3. bipinnate
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palmate-ternate

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pinnate-ternate

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ternately compound (trifoliolate) - a compound leaf with only three leaflets

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biternately compound (biternate)

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palmately compound

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petiole

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sessile

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sheathing

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perfoliate

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connate-perfoliate

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uninervous

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pinnate-netted - secondary veins arising along the length of a single primary vein

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palmate-netted - with four or more primary veins arising from a common basal point

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ternate-netted - three primary veins arising from a common basal point

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dichtomous

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  1. parallel
  2. penni-parallel
  3. palmate-parallel
  4. utimate veinlets transverse
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  • Stamen - anther and filament
  • perianth - petal and sepal
  • nectary
  • receptacle
  • pedicel
  • bract
  • ovules
  • pistil - stigma, style, and ovary
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pedicellate

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sessile

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  • perfect
  • staminate (male)
  • pisillate (female)
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  • biradial
  • radial/actinomorphic
  • bilateral/zygomorphic
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aposepalous apopetalous

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