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45 Cards in this Set
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Nymphaceae
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- Aquatic plants with many stamens, grading from peltate staminodes to well-differentiated stamens with a syncarpic gynoecium.
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Magnoliaceae
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- Stipules surround terminal bud.
- Many pistils and stamens borne on an androgynophore. |
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Piperaceae
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- Inflorescence is a spadix of very small bractete flowers with no perianth and no spathe.
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Alliaceae
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- Smell of alyl sulfates.
- Bulbous herbs with an umbellate inflo and a superior ovary. |
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Orchidaceae
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- Abaxial petal highly modified.
- Pollen delivered in a polinium. |
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Liliaceae
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- Bulbous, 3-merous herbs lacking an alyl sulfate odour, with actinomorphic flowers with nectar guides.
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Melanthiaceae
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- Bulbous 3-merous herbs lacking an alyl sulfate odour with nectaries fused to the base of the tepals.
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Cyperaceae
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- Graminoid morphology with a 3-sided, solid-pithed stem.
- Inflorescence is a spikelet with a rachilla bearing many bracts, each subtending a reduced flower. |
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Juncaceae
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- Graminoid morphology with a solid-pithed stem which is round in cross-section and an evident, scarious perianth.
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Poaceae
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- Graminoid morphology with a round, hollow stem.
- Spikelet subtended by two glumes, with a palea and lemma subtending each floret. |
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Ranunculaceae
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- 5-merous flowers with many stamens and no hypanthium, stipules or epicalyx.
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Caryophyllaceae
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- Fused calyx and free corolla.
- Simple, opposite leaves at swollen nodes. |
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Polygonaceae
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- Simple alternate leaves at swollen nodes with an ocrea.
- Inflorescence an involucrate fasciculate unit. |
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Saxifragaceae
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- Herbs with a terminal raceme borne on a long, naked peduncle; and alternate, estipulate leaves.
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Salicaceae
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- Dioecious trees with flowers in catkins or aments and subtended by a single, undivided bract.
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Euphorbiaceae
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Unisexual flowers with a tricarpellate ovary with one ovule per carpel, and milky latex.
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Fabaceae
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- Fruit is a legume.
- Pentamerous flowers with a single, unicarpelate ovary with marginal placentation. - Phyllode present. |
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Rosaceae
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5-merous flowers with many stamens, a hypanthium and stipules and (sometimes) an epicalyx.
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Spiraeoideae
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Rosaceae. Apocarpic and perigynous. Fruit is an aggregate of follicles.
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Rosoideae
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Rosaceae. Apocarpic and perigynous with an elongated receptacle. Fruit is an aggregate of drupes.
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Prunoideae
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Rosaceae. Monocarpic with a perigynous flower. Fruit is a drupe.
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Pomoideae
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Rosaceae. Syncapic with an epigynous flower. Fruit is a pome.
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Betulaceae
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Trees with unisexual flowers in catkins with a naked ovary, with each female flower subtended by a three-lobed bract.
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Onagraceae
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4-merous flowers with an inferior ovary with a four-lobed stigma and pollen grains connected by viscin threads.
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Brassicaceae
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4-4-6-2 arrangement of flower parts. Fruit is a silique. Stamens tetradynamous.
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Sapindaceae
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Flowers with a perianth of four-five evident sepals which are unisexual by abortion, and a seed which bears a fleshy aril or a dry wing.
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Malvaceae
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Plants with stellate trichomes, an epicalyx, a valvate calyx and many monodelphous stamens.
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Cornaceae
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Cymose inflo with showy, petaloid bracts and 4-merous flowers with an inferior, bicarpellate ovary and separate sepals, petals and anthers.
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Ericaceae
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Evergreen shrubs with coreaceous, revolute leaves and often urceolate flowers.
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Primulaceae
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Typical Asterid flowers with a unilocular ovary, free-central placentation and a basal rosette of leaves.
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Gentianaceae
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Typical Asterid flowers with opposite, estipulate leaves, parietal placentation and a capsular fruit.
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Apocynaceae (Asclepiadoideae)
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Flowers with a distinctive corona formed from a gynostegium and highly-modified petaloid anthers (hoods) with highly reflexed petals.
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Apocynaceae (Apocynoideae)
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Typical Asterid flowers with a 'bottle-brush' stigma and connivent stamens for pollen presentation, and a funnel-shaped, contorted corolla.
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Rubiaceae
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Opposite leaves with inter-petiolar stipules. Epigynous, typical Asterid, flowers.
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Lamiaceae
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Plants with distinctive volatile organic compounds, opposite leaves, square stems and bilabiate flowers clustered in axillary inflorescences with a gynobasic style.
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Scrophulariaceae
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Bilabiate flowers with a terminal style and a many-seeded capsular fruit.
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Boraginaceae
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Actinomorphic, typical Asterid flowers in a scrirpoid cyme with a gynobasic style.
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Solanaceae
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Alternate, trifoliate leaves with one lobe much larger than the others. Typical Asterid flowers with a axile placentation and an acrescent calyx.
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Convulvaceae
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Twining plants with alternate, cordate leaves and typical Asterid flowers which are funnel-shaped with a plicate corolla and unequal filaments.
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Adoxaceae
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Shrubs with opposite, compound leaves and small Asterid flowers in flat-topped cymes with short styles.
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Caprifoliaceae
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Opposite, simple-leaved plants with epigynous, often zygomorphic, long-styled Asterid flowers, swollen at the base, in cymose inflorescences.
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Apiaceae
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Epigynous, asterid flowers with no corolla tube in an involucrate, compound umbel with sheathing leaves. Stylopodium present.
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Campanulaceae (Campanuloideae)
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Actinomorphic, 5-merous bell-shaped flowers with a hypanthium, unfused stamens and milky latex.
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Campanulaceae (Lobelioideae)
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Zygomorphic, 5-merous bell-shaped flowers with a hypathium and a staminal tube with pollen presentation. Milky latex present.
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Asteraceae
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Distinctive capitulum inflorescence with subtending phyllaries and a calyx reduced to a pappus or absent.
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