Systematic Botany

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Define Receptacle

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Floral axis that bears the flower parts

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pedicel

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Stalk of a single flower in an inflorescence

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Calyx

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Collective term for all sepals of a flower

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Corolla

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Collective term for all petals of a flower

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Androecium

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Collective term for all Stamens in a flower(filament and anther)

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Gynoecium

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Collective term for all Pistil/Carpels of a flower (ovary, style, stigma)

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Complete Flower

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Flower having a perianth, gynoecium, and androecium

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Incomplete flower

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Flower lacking either an androecium (stamens) or a gynoecium (carpels); also called a unisexual flower

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Perfect Flower

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Flower which has both an androecium and gynoecium (also bisexual flower)

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Imperfect Flower

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Flower lacking either an androecium or gynoecium

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Staminate Flower

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Pistillate Flower

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Staminate Flower

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Flower with an androecium but no functional gynoecium

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Pistillate Flower

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A flower with a gynoecium but no functional androecium

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Dioecious

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With staminate and pistillate flowers borne on separate plants

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Monoecious

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Staminate and carpellate flowers separate, but borne on a single plant

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Connate

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Fusion of like parts (ex. Snapdragons)

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Adnate

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Fusion of unlike parts, such as stamens with the corolla

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Synsepalous

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Flower with fused sepals

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Gamosepalous

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With the sepals united

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Polysepalous, Aposepalous

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Distinct sepals

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Asepalous

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Lacking sepals

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Sympetalous, Gamopetalous

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Connate, or fused petals

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Polypetalous, Apopetalous

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Distinct, or separate petals

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Apetalous

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Lacking petals

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Symmetry: radial

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actinomorphic or regular flower

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Bilateral symmetry

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zygomorphic or irregular flower

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No symmetry

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asymmetrical

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Suffix -merous

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Monocots 3-merous
Dicots 4 or 5-merous

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androecium: epipetalous

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stamens adnate to petals

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gynoecium: what's the difference between carpel and pistil?

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Ovule-bearing unit(s) that make up the gynoecium
Vs.
Ovule-bearing part of a flower, formed from one or more carpels

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Simple pistil

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If carpels distinct

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Compound Pistil

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If carpels connate

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Monocarpous gynoecium

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one simple pistil

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Apocarpous

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Two or more simple pistils

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Syncarpous

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carpels connate into single unit (compound pistil)

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Placentation

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attachment of the ovules within the interior of an ovary

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What type of placentation?
Simple Pistil

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Marginal (parietal)

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What types of placentation?
Compound pistil

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axile
parietal
free-central

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Axile placentation

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divided by septa, ovules borne along central axis

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Parietal Placentation

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typically, no septa, ovules borne on ovary inner wall

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free-central placentation

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elongated, sometimes free-standing placenta in middle of locule with ovules attached

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Simple and Compound

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Basal and Apical

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Insertion of parts and ovary position:
Hypogynous (superior ovary)

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With perianth parts and stamens arising from below the ovary

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Hypanthium

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Flat, cuplike, or tubular sturcture on which the sepals, petals, and stamens are borne; usually formed from the fused bases of ther perianth parts and stamens or from a modified receptacle; also called a floral cup or floral tube.

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Perigynous

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With perianth parts and stamens borne on an hypanthium that surrounds, but is not fused to, the superior ovary.

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Epigynous

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Inferior ovary
With perianth and stamens apparently borne upon the ovary.