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Definition
Perennial herb
Leaves (alternate, simple)
Flowers (zygomorphic, usually nodding, sometimes cleistogamous) nectar spur
Fruit ( loculicidal capsule or berry) |
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Definition
often aromatic
Leaves and stem ( sheathing leaf bases, furrowed stems)
Compound Umbel
actinomorphic
Stylopodium
Fruit (shizocarp split into 2 mericarps |
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Definition
succulent herb
Leaves ( simple and fleshy )
Flowers ( actinomorphic )
Fruit ( Follicle ) |
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Definition
Primrose family
Leaves simple
Flowers ( epigynous, clawed petals epigynous )
axile placentation
Fruit ( loculicidal , sometimes berry or nutlet) |
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Term
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Definition
Leaves ( alternate, usually compound)
Flowers (unicarpellate, ovary superior)
Fruit ( legume or loment)
nitrogen-fixing bacteria in root nodules |
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Term
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Definition
bipinnately compound leaves
Flowers ( showy stames 5-merous)
Fruit ( legume with U shaped line in seeds)
Pleurogram present |
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| Subfamily Caesalpiniodeae |
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Definition
zygomorphic flower with 10 distinct stamen
fruit is a legume usually lacking U shaped line in seed |
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Term
Subfamily Faboideae
(Papilionoideae) |
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Definition
Herbs trees and shrubs
often with tendrils
zygomorphic flowers with monadelphous or diadelphous stamens
Fruit (legume or loment seeds without U-shaped line) |
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Term
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Definition
Geranium family
Leaves ( lobed, dissected or compound )
Flowers ( petals often alternate with nectar glands) Axile
Fruit ( shizocarp one mericaps spiralling up central beak ) |
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Term
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Definition
milky latex
stipules can be modified into glands, hairs, or spines
Flowers ( imperfect plants usually monoecieous )
normal flower (perianth 5-merous
Euphorbia flower (cyathium inflorescence several male flowers and a single female flower)
Fruit ( shizocarp [each of 3 lobes falls off as a mericarp and seeds often mottled) |
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Term
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Definition
shrubs often with spines (gooseberry)
Leaves ( variously lobed often fascicled)
Flowers ( in racemes or subsolitary, rotate to tubular hypanthium petaloid calyx )
Fruit ( berry, persistant calyx ) |
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Definition
5-merous flower, many flowers
hypanthium present |
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Term
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Definition
mostly shrubs and small trees
only subfamily without stipules
Fruit (follicles, capsule, and rarely an achene) |
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Term
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Definition
many shrubs and some herbs
Leaves (can be compound or simple)
Flower (polycarpous gynoecium)
Fruit (achene, durplet, strawberry) |
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Term
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Definition
all woody
leaves and stem ( finely serrate margins, can be evergreen with lenticels on bark)
Fruit (drupe)
flower ( unicarpellate , large hypanthium) |
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Term
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Definition
shrubs and trees
leaves and stem (have lenticels)
Fruit (pome [apples and pears])
Flowers (syncarpous gynoecium, epigynous flowers) |
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Term
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Definition
mostly perennial herbs
leave (basal, reniform)
FLowers ( petals often clawed axile placentation carpels united at base)
Fruit ( capsule usually septicidal ) |
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Term
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Definition
honeysuckle family
Mostly shrubs
Leaves ( opposite decussate, simple, no stipules)
Flowers(zygomorphic, usually cymes commonly axillary pairs)
Fruit (berry or dry drupe) |
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Term
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Definition
Phlox family
herbs
leaves ( often with gland tipped hairs that give off noxious odor)
Flower ( cyme inflorescence, axile placentation )
Fruit (loculicidal capsule) |
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Term
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Definition
Largest family of plants
Habit (mostly herbaceous, water or milky sap)
Leaves (usually alternate, frequently in basal rosettes, simple or dissected or compound)
Inflorescence (head or capitulum, flowers inserted on receptacle, entire head surrounded by involucre of bracts called phyllaries, receptacular bracts)
Flowers ( perfect or imperfect)
3 types ( disk flowers [tubular] actinomorphic, perfect) (Ray Flowers type A, zygomorphic, imperfect) (Ray flower B ligulate, zygomorphic, perfect, corolla 5-toothed) |
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Definition
| involucre (whorl) of bracts |
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Term
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Definition
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Definition
Asteraceae
Type B flower Ray only |
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Definition
Ateraceae
Type A flower
Disk and Ray flowers |
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Definition
Asteraceae
Disk only flower
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Term
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Definition
Habit (often rough to the touch (scabrous) or bristly)
leaves (scalbrous, simple, entire or pinnately lobed)
Flowers ( perfect, actinomorphic, often in comes, corona [crown])
Fruit (4 nutlets or achenes [very important for ID]) |
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Term
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Definition
habit (perennial, erect or twining shrubs, trees, milky latex)
leaves( opposite or whorled, simple, entire)
Flowers ( perfect, actinomorphic, petals often whorled)
Fruit (2 follicles, berry or capsule, seeds usually comose) |
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Term
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Definition
| connecting structure between pollinia of adjacent anthers |
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Term
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
Habit ( annual or perennial herbs, stems often winged and 4-angled)
leaves ( opposite or whorled, decussate, entire, sessile)
Flower (actinomorphic, corolla contorted, often plicate (folded)
Fruit (septicidal capsule) |
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Term
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Definition
| folded as in a folding fan |
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Term
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Definition
habit (perennial herb sometimes shrubs, sometime milky latex)
Leaves (alternate, simple)
flowers (perfect, A or Z, corolla often campanulate)
anthers for a tube around style
fruit ( poricidal or circumscissile capsule or berry) |
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Term
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Definition
habit (herbs, shrubs or trees, often vines, milky latex)
leaves (alternate, simple, often vary on same plant)
Flower (perfect, A, corolla plicate, contorted, funnelform or salverform)
fruit (capsule, berry or nut) |
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Term
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Definition
habit (no milky latex, herbs, woody vine, tree)
leaves (alternate, simple)
Flowers (perfect, A, plicate, rotate, funnelform, salverform, anthers often connivent)
fruit (berry, septicidal capsule, calyx often present) |
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Term
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Definition
| anthers converging but not actually fused |
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