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Family - Equisetaceae
Genis - Equisetum
Common - Horsetail; Scouring Rush |
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Family - Ginkgoaceae
Genus - Ginko biloba
Common - Maidenhair |
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Family - Ginkgoaceae
Genus - Ginko biloba
Common - Maidenhair |
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Pinaceae - Pinus - Pine
Cupressaceae - Taxodium - Bald Cypress
Taxaceae - Taxus - Yew |
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| Psilotaceae- Psilotum nudum - Whisk Fern |
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Polypodiaceae s.l - Patycerium - Staghorn Fern
Polypodiaceae s.l - Adiantum - Maindenhair Fern
Polypodiaceae s.l -Polypodium - Resurrection Fern
Polypodiaceae s.l - Lygodium - Japanese Climbing Fern |
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Spiderwart Family
Herbs with closed sheathed leaves
k 3 or (3); C 3 or (3) A 3 or (30 Staminoide; or 1g (3) superior |
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| mass of pollen grains but the product of one anther, transferred as a single unit. |
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| the "gynostemium" reproductive structure found in Orchidacease releases pollen and receives pollen (from onther). The tip (of a single male antler) at the top collum holds waxy masses of 2,4 or 6 pellets called pollina. The transfer of pollina is dependent on certain arthropods. |
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| lip part of an orchid modified petal distinguished from other pedals and from sepals with its large size |
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| spike of minute flowers closely arranged around fleshy axis and typically enclosed in spathe |
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Order - Polypodiales
Family - Polypodiaceae s.l
Genus - Patycerium -
Common Name - Staghorn Fern |
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Polypodiales
Polypodiaceae s.l - Adiantum - Maindenhair Fern |
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Polypodiales
Polypodiaceae s.l - Lygodium - |
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Polypodiales
Polypodiaceae s.l -Polypodium - |
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| symbiotic association between fungus and roots of vascular plants |
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| Palm Family - usually arborescent (tree like growth or appearance) with large sheating plicate leaves. Fleshy usually drupaceous fruit. |
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Family - Arecaceae
Genus - Cocos
Common Name - Coconut |
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Family - Commelinaceae
Genus - Tradesscantai
Common - Spiderwart
Widespread in tropical to temperate |
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"grasses"
Juncaceae - Juncus - Rush
Cyperaceae - Carex - Sedges
Poaceae - Bamboo - Bamboo
- POA - Blue Grass
Sedges have edges; rushes are round; grasses are hollow right up from the ground |
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| Poales - Cyperaceae - Carex - Sedges |
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| Poales - Juncaceae - Juncus - Rush |
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| Poales - Poaceae - Bamboo - Bamboo |
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| Poales - Poaceae - POA - Blue Grass |
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| orchid family - mycorrhizal, perrinial herbs, showy labellum, column & polinia (most) P 3 & 3; A 1-3, G 3 |
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In the Apasparigales Order
Iris Family
perennial herbs; unifacial-equitant leaves.
P 3+3 or (3+3)
A 3 or 3
G 3 usually inferior |
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No spotting on tepals
Nectaries in the septa of the ovary
Seed coat characteristics |
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| able to store water in leaves & stems ; helps withstand drought |
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| black pigment in Asparagales/Asteracae - lacks nitrogen, a black carbonceaous material that forms crust like covering on some seeds; black pigment in seed coat (Most Asparagales but not orchidaceae) |
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| small hair / outgrowth from the epidermis |
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| forming or belonging to the bottom layer or base |
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| the complete flower head of a plant including stems/stalks/bracts & flowers. |
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| Araceae Family (Arum) - trichomes located in the axis of sheathing leaves. Bifocal leaves with parallel or netted venation. usually a spadix of numerous, small flowers with a subtending spathe |
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Polypodiales - Polypodiaceae s.l. - Platycerium - Staghorn Fern
Adiantum - Maidenhair fern
Polypodium - resurrection Fern
Lygodium - Japanese climbing fern
Psilotales - Psilotaceae - Psilotum nudum
Equisetales - Equisetaceae - Equisetum - Horsetail, scouring-rush |
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Cycadaceae
Ginkgoaceae
Pinaceae |
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Amborellales - Amborellaceae - Amborella - Amborella
Nymphaeaceae - Nymphaeaceae - Nymphaea - Water Lilly
Numpar - Yellow Water Lily |
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Magnoliales - Magnoliaceae - Magnolia - Magnolia
Liriodendron - Tuplip Tree
Laurales - Lauraceae - Persea - Avacado
Laurales - Lauraceae - Sassafras - sassafras |
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Alismatales - Areceae - Monstera - Everman's fruit
Alismatales - Areceae - Sympolcarpus - Skunk Cabbage
Alismatales - Areceae - Lemma - Duckweed
Liliales - Liliaceae- Lilium - Lily
Liliales - Liliaceae- Tulipa - Tulip
Asparagales - Asparagaceae - Agave - Centry plant
Asparagales - Asparagaceae -yucca - Spanish bayonet
Asparagales - alliaceae - Allium - Onion/Garlic
Asparagales - Iridaceae - Crocus - Crocus
Asparagales - Iridaceae - Iris - Iris
Asparagales - Orchidaceae - Cypripedium - Ladies Slipper
Asparagales - Orchidaceae -Phalaenopis - Moth orchid
Asparagales - Orchidaceae -Oncidium - Dancing Ladies
Arecales - Arecaceae - Cocus - Coconut
Commelinales - Commelinaceae - Tradescantia - Spiderwart
Zingiberales - Zingiberaceae
Poales - Juncaeae - Juncus - Rush
Poales - Cyperaceae - Carex - Sedge
Poales - Poaceae - Poa - Blue Grass
Poales - Poaceae - Bamboo - Bamboo |
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| the upright (flowering and fruiting) stems of grasses & sedges, usually HOLLOW except at the swollen nodes |
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| the individual flower (especially in composites & grasses that is small and found in dense clusters; used for grass flowers with lemma & palea included. |
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| a small chaff-like bract; in particular, one of the two sterile bracts found at the base of most grass spikelets |
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| the lower (outer) of two scales subtending a grass floret. (Scale - A small, thin, usually dry, often appressed plant structure, such as any of the protective leaves that cover a tree bud or the bract that subtends a flower in a sedge spikelet) |
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| a projection from the top of the sheath in grasses & similar plants |
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| an achene with the seed fused to ovary wall often restricted to the fruits of grasses, derived from a one-locular superior (above the flower parts) ovary. *achene - small dry one seeded fruit that does not open to release the seed) |
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| one of 2 or 3 scales oppressed to the base of the ovary in most grasses; believed to be rudiments of ancestral perianth. Scale - A small, thin, usually dry, often appressed plant structure, such as any of the protective leaves that cover a tree bud or the bract that subtends a flower in a sedge spikelet) |
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| the upper of the two enclosed bracts of a grass floret |
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| remnants of the perianth found in many sedges (perianth - outer part of the flower consisting of calyx (sepals) and corolla (petals). |
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| the papery sheath that envelopes the achene in Carex |
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