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large rosett herbs
leaves with thick fibers
leaves with sharps spines and apex
seeds with phytomelan, flat |
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bulbs
umbles
smells like onion
phytomelan on seed |
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lower stems often redish
flowers minute and green
papery bracts (ameranthus)
fruit an utricle or pryxis with numerous shiny black seeds
halophytic herbs often fleshy |
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rough herbs
alternate leaves
coiled cyme inflorescense
genocyme - 4 lobed
genobasic style |
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arromatic herb
hollow furrowed stems
compound leaves
sheathing leaf base
inflorescent compound umbles
fruit is a shizocarp |
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milky sap
opposite or whorled leaves
gynocium of two carples
corona sometimes hood or horn present
fruit a follicle with comocose seeds |
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Definition
inflorescent a head
flower small 5-merous, sympetalous
calyx represented by a pappus
stamens 5 united by anthers
ovary bicarpellate, inferior
fruit is an achene |
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herb with acride taste
flowers cross shaped 4-merous
tetradinamous stamens
fruit a sillque or sillcle |
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succulent spiny herbs
showy flowers with numerous perith parts
many stamens
inferior ovary |
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Definition
5-merous flowers
campanulate corrola (if actinomorphic)
sympetalous
inferior ovary
bottle brush style |
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Definition
shrub with opposite leaves
exstipulate
flower 5-merous
auxillary pair flower
inferior ovary |
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Definition
herbs with opposite leaves
swollen nodes
free centeral placentation
capsule opening by valves
stamens alternate with petals |
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Definition
mostly vines
often with milky latex
5-merous flowers
tubular plicate corolla |
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Definition
succulent herb
4-5 merous flowers
polycarpous
carples subtended by scale like glands |
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tendrils bearing vines
unisexual flowers with inferior ovary
pepo |
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Definition
grass like herb
3-sided solid stem
three ranked leaves
closed sheaths
one bract subtended flowers
perigynium
fruit is an achene one seed
gynoecium with basal placentation |
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woody plants usually shrubs
leathery evergreen leaves
urcilat or campanulate flowers
anthers open by terminal pores |
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Definition
herbs and shrubs with milky laytex
unisexual flowers
3 carpelat gynoecium
cyathium |
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Definition
fruit a legume
loment
leaves simple or palmately compound
flowers zygomorphic usually or with many stamens |
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Definition
herbs with opposit extipulate leaves
4- 5 merous flowers
corolla usually contorted
superior ovary |
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Definition
herbs with palmate or pinnatly lobed to compound leaves
flowers 5-merous
fruits zygocarpous which curve up on a beak |
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Definition
spiny shrubs
alternate lobed leaves
petaloid persistant calyx
rotate to tubular hypanthium
inferior ovary |
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Definition
petaloid styles
from bulbs cormes or rhizomes
MONOCOT |
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rushes
grasslike herb of wet and damp sites
basal tuffed leaves
reduced inconspicuous flowers
flowers with 6 tepals |
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aeromatic herb
square stems
opposite leaves
5-merous zygomorphic flowers
4 lobed ovary
gynobasic style |
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Definition
perennial herb from bulb
leaves linear with parrallel veination
flower with 6 parts
seeds not black coated |
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Definition
herbs with coarse multicellular hairs
flowers 5-merous epigynous
numerous stamens
fruit a capsule with persistant caylex |
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stellate pubescence
palmatley lobed and veined leaves
monodelphous stamens
cheese wheel fruit (shizocarp) |
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Definition
herbs with opposite leaves
bracts mimic sepals often brightly colord
sepals persistant petaloid
anthrocarp |
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Definition
4-merous flowers
inferior ovary
hypanthium |
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Definition
often epiphytic herbs
two ranked leaves
3-merous
zygomorphic flowers
flowers with labellum
pollina, gynandrium
inferior ovary |
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deciduous sepals
crumpled pedals
numerous stamens
milky or colored latex |
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Definition
5 merous zygomorphic flowers (some weak)
4 stamens and sometimes 5th stamenoid
no gynobasic style or 4 lobed ovary |
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open sheath
flowers in spiklets
two bracts subtending flowers - lemma and palea |
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Definition
synsepalous
sympetalous flowers
stamen epipetalous
gynoecium tricarpalate |
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Definition
herbs with swollen nodes
ocrea present
petaloid calyx
lens shaped or triangular achene |
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Definition
succulent herbs
two sepals
basal placentation |
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herbs with basal leaves
stamens adnate to corrolla, opposite petals
free central placentation |
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sheathing leaf base
numerous stamens
distinct carpals |
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leaves with stipules
5merous flowers
many stamens
hypanthium present |
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dioecious trees and shrubs
inflorescense a catkin
comose seeds |
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Definition
scapose herb
alternate or basal exstipulate leaves
two carpals united at base
hypanthium, perigynous |
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plicate, sympetalous corolla
connivent anthers common
persistent calyx
fruit usually a berry |
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Definition
usually opposite leaves
5-merous zygomorphic flowers
single terminal style
ovary not 4 lobed |
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herbs with 5-merous flowers
flowers zygomorphic
flowers spurred
3-carpellate gynoecium
explosive loculicidal capsule |
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