Plant Id Test 2

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1. > 1/3 of species have parietal
placentation
2. ~1/3 are also sympetalous
3. Syncarpous

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Subclass Dilleniidae

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1. Herbs with 5-merous flowers
2. Flowers zygomorphic
3. Flowers spurred
4. 3-carpellate gynoecium
5. Explosive loculicidal capsule or berry

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Family Violaceae

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1. Flowers with separate petals (usually)
2. Well-developed nectary disc

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Subclass Rosidae

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Leaves and stem:
n Hollow internodes
n Stems furrowed
n Leaves alternate
n Leaves usually compound
n Sheathing leaf bases

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Family Apiaceae

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1. Aromatic herbs
2. Hollow, furrowed stems
3. Compound leaves
4. Sheathing leaf bases
5. Compound umbels
6. Fruit a schizocarp

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Family Apiaceae

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1. Succulent herbs
2. 4-5 merous flowers
3. Polycarpous
4. Carpels subtended by scale-like gland

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Family Crassulaceae

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1. Herbs with palmately or pinnately
lobed to compound leaves
2. Flowers 5-merous
3. Fruits schizocarps which curl up on a
beak

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Family Geraniaceae

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1. Spiny shrubs
2. Alternate lobed leaves
3. Petaloid, persistent calyx
4. Rotate to tubular hypanthium
5. Inferior ovary
6. Fruit a berry

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Family Grossulariaceae

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1. Leaves alternate
2. Leaves usually compound
3. Leaves stipulate
4. Flowers perfect, 5-merous
5. Flowers unicarpellate, ovary superior
6. Fruit a legume or loment
7. Seeds lack endosperm
8. Nitrogen-fixing bacteria in root nodules
(usually)

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Family Fabaceae

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Three sub families of Family Fabaceae

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1. Mimosoideae
2. Caesalpiniaceae
3. Faboideae (Papilionoideae)

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Distinct petals
Showy stamens
Seeds with U-shaped line in seed (pleurogram)

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Subfamily Mimosoideae

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Stamens not showy, free
Closed pleurogram
Zygomorphic, showy,
banner inside wings

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Subfamily Caesalpinioideae

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Leaves often with tendrils
Zygomorphic, showy,
banner outside wings

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Subfamily Faboideae

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1. Scapose herbs
2. Alternate or basal exstipulate kidney shaped leaves
3. 5-merous flowers
4. 2 carpels united at base
5. Hypanthium

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Family Saxifragaceae

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1. 4-merous flowers
2. Inferior ovary
3. Hypanthium, sepals, petals and stamens inserted on rim

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Family Onagraceae

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1. Leaves with stipules
2. 5-merous flowers
3. Hypanthium present
4. Many stamens

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Family Rosaceae

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Four sub-families of Family Rosaceae

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1. Spiraeoideae
2. Rosoideae
3. Amygdaloideae (Prunoideae)
4. Maloideae (Pomoideae, Pyroideae)

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Mostly shrubs and small trees
Leaves exstipulate
Actinomorphic flowers
Fruit follicles, capsule, rarely an achene

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Subfamily Spiraeoideae

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Many shrubs, some herbs
Leaves stipulate and can be compound or simple
Actinomorphic flowers
Fruit achene or drupelet
i.e. Strawberry

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Subfamily Rosoideae

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Shrubs and trees
All woody
Leaves with finely serrate margins and lenticels on bark
Fruit is a drupe
i.e. Peach

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Subfamily Amygdaloideae

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Shrubs and trees
Fruit a Pome
i.e. Apple

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Subfamily Maloideae

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Flowers:
n Syncarpous gynoecium
n Epigynous flowers
n Floral formula:
K5 C5 A10-∞`G (2-5)
Calyx,Corolla,and androecium joined
Inferior ovary

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Subfamily Maloideae

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1. Herbs and shrubs with milky latex
2. Imperfect flowers
3. Cyathium
4. 3-carpellate gynoecium
5. Two types of flowers – Euphorbia type and
“normal type”

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Family Euphorbiaceae

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n Cyathium is
inflorescence
n Inside involucre are
several male flowers
and a single female
flower
n Male and female
flowers pedicellate
n Nectar glands present

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Euphorbia type flowers

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1. Most sympetalous
2. As many or fewer stamens than corolla
lobes
3. Bicarpellate

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Subclass Asteridae

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1. Rough herbs (usually)
2. Alternate leaves
3. Coiled cyme inflorescence
4. 5-merous flowers, often blue
5. Gynoecium 4-lobed
6. Gynobasic style
7. Fruit 4 nutlets or achenes

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Family Boraginaceae

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1. Usually bristly herbs
2. Coiled cyme inflorescence
3. 5-merous flowers
4. Flowers synsepalous, sympetalous
5. 2 carpels
6. Ovary unlobed

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Family Hydrophyllaceae

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1. Usually opposite leaves
2. Square stems
3. Indeterminate inflorescence
4. 5-merous, zygomorphic flowers
5. Ovary often 4-lobed
6. Didynamous stamens

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Family Verbenaceae

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1. Aromatic herbs
2. Square stems
3. Opposite leaves
4. Inflorescence determinate
5. 5-merous, zygomorphic flowers
6. 4-lobed ovary
7. Gynobasic style

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Family Lamiaceae

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1. 5-merous flowers
2. Often with gland-tipped
hairs (giving off a noxious odor)
3. Synsepalous, sympetalous flowers
4. Stamens epipetalous
5. Gynoecium tricarpellate

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Family Polemoniaceae

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1. Shrubs with opposite leaves
2. Exstipulate
3. Flowers 5-merous
4. Flowers commonly in axillary pairs
5. Inferior ovary

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Family Caprifoliaceae

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1. Herbs with opposite, exstipulate,
sessile, and basally connate leaves
2. Stems winged
3. 4-5-merous, brightly colored flowers
4. Corolla usually contorted
5. Superior ovary
6. 2 carpels

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Family Gentianaceae

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1. Milky sap
2. 5-merous flowers
3. Gynoecium of 2 carpels
4. Fruit a follicle with comose seeds

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Family Apocynaceae

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1. Opposite or whorled leaves
2. Milky latex
3. 5-merous flowers
4. Corona, pollinia, translators, corpuscula
5. Fruit follicles with comose seeds

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Family Asclepiadaceae

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structure formed
from fusion of anthers with
stigmatic region

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Gynostegium

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hollow covering. Inside is
horn

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Hood

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petal-like appendages
between petals

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Corona

Front 38

1. 5-merous flowers
2. Campanulate corolla (if actinomorphic flower)
3. Sympetalous
4. Inferior ovary
5. Poricidal or circumscissile capsule

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Family Campanulaceae

Front 39

1. Mostly vines
2. Often with milky latex
3. Showy, 5-merous flowers
4. Funnelform, plicate corolla
5. Epipetalous stamens
6. 2 carpels

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Family Convolvulaceae

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1. 5-merous flowers
2. Plicate, sympetalous corolla
3. Connivent anthers common
4. Stamens epipetalous
5. Persistent calyx
6. Fruit usually a berry or sometimes capsule

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Family Solanaceae

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1. 5-merous zygomorphicflowers
2. 4 stamens and sometimes 5th staminode
3. No gynobasic style or 4-lobed ovary

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Family Scrophulariaceae

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1. Inflorescence a head
2. Flowers small, disk and ray
3. Calyx represented by pappus
4. Stamens 5, united by anthers
5. Ovary bicarpellate, inferior
6. Fruit an achene

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Family Asteraceae