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118 Cards in this Set
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Leathery Texture |
Coriaceous |
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Thin, like the skin of an onion |
Papyraceous |
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Very thin and translucent |
Membranous |
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Leaf surface shiny and smooth, lacking any hairs or other protuberances |
Glabrous |
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Thick and fleshy, often storing moisture |
Succulent |
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Covered with waxy secretion, bluish |
Glaucous |
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Rough feeling, sandpapery |
Scabrous |
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Scaly, scales able to be rubbed off |
Scurfy |
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Technical term for a hair or scale |
Trichome |
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With hairs along the leaf margin |
Ciliate |
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With rough, abrasive hairs |
Hispid |
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With star-shaped structures |
Stellate |
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With a thick "carpet" of wooly, matted hairs |
Tomentose |
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With a covering of very fine, short hairs |
Puberulent |
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Hairs that are star-shaped |
Stellate |
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Embedded structure storing a substance, such as found in citrus leaves |
Punctate gland |
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Wrinkled texture |
Rugose |
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Warty texture |
Verrucose |
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Folded leaf surface |
Plicate |
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Are between stem and cotyledons |
Hypocotyl |
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Special structure in some plants with extra thick stem portions storing moisture and nutrients |
Caudex |
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Sharp modified stem |
THorn |
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Sharp modified leaf |
Spine |
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Sharp modified epidermis |
Prickle |
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Underground, mostly stem tissue, eg. Gladiolus |
Corm |
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1. Linear 2. Lanceolate 3. Oblanceolate 4. Ovate 5. Obovate 6. Elliptic 7. Oblong |
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1. Acuminate 2. Acute 3. Obtuse 4. Rounded |
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1. Entire 2. Serrate 3. Serrulate 4. Dentate 5. Denticulate 6. Crenate 7. Sinuate |
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1. Awl 2. Subulate, scale |
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1. Spadate 2. Peltate |
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1. Sagittate 2. Auriculate 3. Hastate |
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Single term Collective Term 1. Stamen Androecium 2. Pistil Gynoecium 3. Petal Corolla 4. Sepal Calyx |
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Inflorescence: Raceme Category: Racemose Growth: Indeterminate If unopened flowers were at the bottom: Cymose If the flower lacked stalks: Spike |
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13. Ray, ligulate flower 14. Disc Flower 15. Receptacle |
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Achene |
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Bilateral |
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Fruitlets: Drupe or drupelet Infructescence: Aggregate |
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Berry |
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Drupe, fleshy exocarp |
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Pome Hypanthium tissue is eaten Accessory fruit |
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Undulate |
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Sinuate |
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Biserrate or doubly serrate |
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1. Imparipinnate 2. Tendrip Pinnate 3. Paripinnate |
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Palmate |
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1. Pinnately lobed 2. Pinnatifid 3. Pinnatisect |
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1. Retuse 2. Emarginate 3. Obcordate |
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Oblique |
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Perfoliate |
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Parallel |
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Venation: Penni-parallel Leaf Shape: Elliptic Leaf Apex: Acute |
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Reticulate |
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Falcate |
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Trifoliolate |
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Cordate |
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Dichotomous |
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Truncate |
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Only male or female |
Dioecious |
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Both male and female |
Bisexual, hermaphroditic |
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May or may not have petiole but part of the leaf is adnate |
Decurrent |
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Go around the stem but are loosely holding the stem and not attached |
clasping |
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stem goes through leaf blade |
perfoliate |
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two like structures fused together and stem goes through them |
connate-perfoliate |
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in grasses, area between sheath and blade |
collar |
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in grasses, outgrowths near the collar region at the edges of the sheath |
auricles |
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in grasses, part going around true stem |
sheath |
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one leaf pair is noticebaly smaller than the other |
anisophyllous |
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without leaves |
aphyllous |
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leafy stipules |
foliaceous |
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from the point where the secondary axis begins to the last secondary axis |
rachis |
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from rachis to the first leaflet or possily tertiary axis |
petiolule |
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secondary or subsequent axes |
rachilla |
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two leaflets or divisions |
bifoliolate |
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three leaflets |
trifoliolate |
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pinnate leaves but each leaflet replaced with secondary axis |
bipinnate |
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veins arc or curve |
arcuate venation |
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needle like |
acicular |
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modification of leaf apex to serve as tendril |
cirrhose |
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dramatic curve inward of apex |
emarginate |
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small extension of themidrib extending out of the blade |
mucronate |
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leaf apex pointed but not sharp |
apiculate |
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pointed and sharp leaf apex |
cuspidate |
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apex very long and shaped somewhat like a tail |
caudate |
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narow angle between the two sides of the base |
cuneate |
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same as cuneate but with a curve |
attenuate |
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wraps around and grasp stem it's attached to |
amplexicaul |
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base travels down stem and is adnate |
decurrent
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ochreate where base is fused to tube and wrapped around the stem |
sheathing |
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so uneven as to make one think randomly torn |
lacerate |
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lacerate leaves with lobes uniformly pointing forward |
runcinate |
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trichome with flat surface at top |
peltate |
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portion of leaf that lies directly beneath cotyledons and above root system |
hypocotyl |
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modified stem from hypocotyl tissue |
caudex |
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plants with swollen stems |
caudiciforms |
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modified petiole |
phyllode |
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modified leaf |
cladode |
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arise below ground |
suckers |
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arise above ground |
water sprouts |
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modification of regular stem, short and grow slowly |
spurs |
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short shoot on cacti produces all flowers |
cephalium |
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apical meristem goes wacko and multiplies |
cristate |
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anomalous growth |
monstrose |
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aids in gas exchange |
lenticel |
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modified leaf wrapped around it that turns into a type of skin |
tunicate bulb |
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fleshy leaves with one destined to become photosyntheitc |
scaly bulb |
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small bulbs that grow from mother bilb |
bulbils |
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small bulbs above ground in leaf axils |
bulbets |
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defend themselves against dry |
xerophytes |
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defend agains saline |
halophytes |
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live mostly underground |
geophytes |
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structure that dies but does not fall off |
marcescent |
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spring |
vernal |
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summer |
aestival |
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autumnal |
fall |
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hibernal |
winter |
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series of modified leaves sorrounding a single flower or group of flowers |
bract, collectivelly called involucre |
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sterile flower parts |
sepals and petals, collectively calyx and corrola, but together called the perianth |
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flowers with one fertile whorl but not the other |
staminate
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