Plant Taxonomy Test 4

Front 1

Family: Arecaceae (Palm)

Back 1

Trees or shrubs with unbranched trunks. Large apical meristem. Leaves crowded at terminal crown, pinnately lobed and plicate (i.e., v-shaped). Fruit is a drupe.

Front 2

Family: Bromeliaceae (Bromeliad)

Back 2

Rosette herbs with silica bodies in epidermal cells. Leaves often form a tank-like basal rosette to hold water. Leaves contain water storage tissue. Fruit is a capsule.

Front 3

Family: Typhaceae (Cattail)

Back 3

Rhizomatous herbs in aquatic or wetland areas. Leaves alternate, 2-ranked, and linear. Leaves are spongy with air canals and sheath at the base around stem. Fruit is a drupe or follicle.

Front 4

Family: Juncaceae (Rush)

Back 4

Herbs, with round, solid stems. Leaves alternate and 3-ranked composed a leaf blade and sheath that is open. Fruit is a capsule.

Front 5

Family: Cyperaceae (Sedge)

Back 5

Herbs with a triangular stem. Leaves alternate and 3-ranked composed of a leaf blade and sheath that is closed. Fruit is an achene.

Front 6

Family: Poaceae (Grass)

Back 6

Herbs with jointed stems that are round or elliptical. Leaves alternate and 2- ranked, composed of a leaf blade, ligule and sheaths tightly around stem. Fruit is a grain.

Front 7

Family: Musaceae (Plantain or Banana)

Back 7

Large herbs from a corm-like rhizome, forming a false stem. Tissues with laticifers. Leaves alternate, spirally arranged. Leaves are large and simple, often tearing between veins. Fruit is a berry or fleshy capsule.

Front 8

Family: Zingiberaceae (Ginger)

Back 8

Spicy, aromatic herbs with scattered secretory cells containing oils, terpeniods and phenyl-compounds. Leaves are simple, alternate and two-ranked. Fruit is a berry or capsule.

Front 9

Family: Ranunculaceae (Buttercup)

Back 9

Herbs. Stems with vascular bundles arranged in concentric rings. Leaves are simple, usually alternate and spiraled. Fruit is a follicle or achene.

Front 10

Family: Berberidaceae (Barberry)

Back 10

Herbs or shrubs. Wood is usually colored yellow by berberine (an alkaloid). Leaves usually alternate and spiraled. Fruit is a berry.

Front 11

Family: Papaveraceae (Poppy)

Back 11

Herbs or shrubs. Laticifers present with colored sap containing various alkaloids. Leaves often lobed or dissected. Fruit is a capsule.

Front 12

Family: Platanaceae (Sycamore)

Back 12

Trees. Bark comes off in large, irregular sheets leaving patchy, light-colored and smooth surface. Petiole base encloses axillary buds. Stipules present and conspicuous. Fruit is cluster of achenes.

Front 13

Family: Altingiaceae (Sweetgum)

Back 13

Shrubs or trees. Secretory canals containing aromatic compounds. Leaves alternate and palmately lobed. Fruit is a cluster of capsules.

Front 14

Family: Vitaceae (Grape)

Back 14

Lianas with tendrils that twine or have adhesive disks. Stem has swollen nodes with raphide sacs. Fruit is a berry.

Front 15

Family: Oxalidaceae (Wood Sorrel)

Back 15

Herbs with bulb-like tubers containing high levels of soluble and crystalline oxalates. Leaves alternate forming a rosette, with a pulvinus. Fruit is a capsule or berry.

Front 16

Family: Hypericaceae (Saint-John’s-Wort)

Back 16

Trees, shrubs or herbs with a clear or black resinous sap. Fruit is a capsule.

Front 17

Family: Violaceae (Violet)

Back 17

Herbs with alternate leaves forming a basal rosette. Fruit is a capsule.

Front 18

Family: Passifloraceae (Passion flower)

Back 18

Vines or lianas with axillary tendrils. Contain cyanogenic glucosides. Flowers with conspicuous bracts. Fruit is a capsule or berry.

Front 19

Family: Salicaceae (Willow)

Back 19

Trees or shrubs with phenolic compounds. Leaves are deciduous, alternate and two-ranked. Fruit is a capsule, berry or drupe.

Front 20

Family: Fabaceae (Legume or Bean)

Back 20

Herbs to trees with a high nitrogen metabolism with root nodules containing N- fixing bacterium Rhizobium. Leaves and leaflets with pulvinus. Fruit is a legume.

Front 21

Family: Rosaceae (Rose)

Back 21

Herbs to trees. Thorns oftentimes present. Flowers are showy. Fruit is a follicle or achene.

Front 22

Family: Ulmaceae (Elm)

Back 22

Trees. Leaves alternate with pinnate venation and secondary veins ending in the teeth of leaf margin. Blade has asymmetrical base. Fruit is a samara or nutlet.

Front 23

Family: Cannabaceae (Hemp)

Back 23

Herbs to trees. Hairs simple and containing a glandular head containing aromatic substances or tetrahydrocannabinol. Fruit is a drupe

Front 24

Family: Cucurbitaceae (Cucurbit)

Back 24

Vines with spirally coiled and branching tendrils coming from the nodes. Fruit is either a berry or a pepo, with a hard leathery rind.