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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- Node
- Lenticles
- Leaf Scar/Vascular bundle scars
- Terminal Bud Scale Scars
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- the place where the leaf come out
- Allow gas exchange
- Where leaf used to be
- 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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