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| Palmate leaf with finger-like lobes[image] |
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| Narrow leaf, broadest just below the middle[image] |
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| Having sides of unequal length or form[image] |
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| Egg shaped, narrow towards the tip[image] |
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| Egg shaped but broadest towards the base[image] |
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| Shaped like a hand (simple and compound)[image] [image] |
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Compound leaf with 3+ leaflets arranged along a rachis
-Bi-pinate: pinnate leaf with pinnate leaflets[image] |
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-Seed bearing plants:
-Gymnosperms: cone bearing (includes conifers)
-Angiosperms: flowering plants |
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-A tree/shrub shedding its leaves annually
-"falling off at maturity" |
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| Having broad flat leaves, generally hardwoods |
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| Has leaves all year round |
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| Covered with short hair or soft down |
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-A flower cluster with the separate flowers attached by short equal stalks at equal distances along a central stem. The flowers at the base of the central stem develop first.
-An inflorescence having stalked flowers arranged singly along a central stem[image] |
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| Small wooden pegs attaching needles to stem (very small)[image] |
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| Leaf fall, also fruit, flower, seed |
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| Raised respiratory pores on stems[image] |
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| Rounded bulb on a trunk or branch[image] |
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"The science of finding, describing, classifying, and naming living things"
-Considered an ancient profession-Ex: the communication needed to distinguish edible and poisonous plants and animals
-The classification system groups organisms from the widest to the most specific |
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| Order of classification (most general to most specific) |
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| Kingdom, division, class (gymno/angiosperm), order, family, genus, species |
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"The scientific naming of plants
-In latin
-Keystone was Linnaeus adoption of binary names for plants
-"International Code of Nomenclature": Body of rules developed to govern botanical nomenclature
-Species name: genus name plus species descriptor
-Authorship: authors name and date of publication is given after the species name |
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| Botanical nomenclature: conventions |
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-Latin names appear italicised when in print or underlined if handwritten
-The authority appears in non-italicised font
-Cultivars appear in single quotation marks
Usual convention is to abbreviate the genera if it is being repeated
-Hybrids--offspring of parents of different species (intrageneric-same has genera, intergeneric-different genera) |
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A plant that has originated through cloning or hybridisation and known only in cultivation. Selected for specific characteristics.
-Arises from combination of "cultivated" and "variety" |
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| Offspring of parents that differ in genetically determined traits. Can be naturally occuring |
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| A taxonomic rank below species (not the same as 'plant variety') |
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-Leaves (small needles) attached to stem on pulvini
-Fruits pendulous when ripening
-Bark thin and scaly, not deeply fissured
-Foliage harsh to touch
-Needles cover whole stem[image] |
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-Leaves (needles) in bundles of 2, 3, 5
Fruits: 2 needled usually small and globose or conic, 3 needled usually massive and globose or conic, 5 needled usually cylindrical and either short or long[image] |
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-Deciduous conifer (key feature)
-Spirally set leaves (whorls)
-Woody fruits all complete: cone falls off tree
-Softer needles[image] |
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| False Cypresses 'Chamaecyparis' |
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-Foliage flattened in sprays (like palms)
-Scale leaves
-Small fruits
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-Only evergreen conifers where the leaves are borne in whorls
-Needles borne single on current years' shoots
-Fruits (cones) erect and disintegrate on tree
-Young branch tips: ascending-atlantic, level-lebanon, descending-deodar[image] |
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-Regular symmetrical growth (looks artificial)
-Fruits (cones) erect on branches and disintegrate on tree
-Needles held on sucker-like bases, leaves circular scars on
shoot when removed
-smooth and leathery foliage
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-All bear acorns
-All have simple alternate leaves
-Some have lobed leaves
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-Many with flowers lacking petals and wind pollinated
-All have winged fruit
-Opposite pinnate leaves [image] |
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-Opposite, mostly simple leaves
-Fruit with 2 membranous wings[image] |
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-Leaf oblique at the base
-Flowers in cymes, adhering half way along a bract[image] |
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-Pinnate leaf: 5-9 leaflets with serrated margins
-Clusters of pale coloured flowers
-Fruits are clusters of small berries[image] |
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-Pith chambered: shoot divided by transverse parallel plates
-Leaves alternate and pinnate
-Fruit a large indehiscent drupe
-One or more seeds[image] |
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