Vegetative plant structure continued
Stems
Nodes
Internodes
Lenticels
Buds
Axillary
Terminal
Pseudoterminal
Leaves
Leaf parts
Petiole
Blade
Stipules
Leaf type
Simple
Compound
Pinnately compound
Once pinnately compound
Twice pinnately compound
Even pinnate; odd pinnate
Leaf arrangement
Alternate
Opposite
Whorled
Some basic leaf blade shapes: Linear; lanceolate; ovate; elliptic; peltate;
Common leaf margins: Entire, Serrate, Dentate, Lobed
Examples of common leaf apices: Acute; obtuse; acuminate; mucronate
Examples of leaf bases: Trunctate; sagittate;
cordate; oblique; auriculata; perfoliate
Reproductive structures:
Flowers
4 basic parts of flowers:
Sepals -> calyx
Petals ->corolla
Stamens -> androecium
Carpels -> gynoecium (pistil). Consists of the stigma; style; and ovary
Ovules are contained in the ovary and, when mature, form the seed
Ovary wall will mature into the fruit; other floral parts may also participate
in fruit formation in certain species.
Pistil:
Simple
Compound
Complete flowers
Perfect flowers
Flower symmetry
Radial
Bilateral
Androperianth position
Hypogynous
Epigynous
Perigynous
Ovary postion
Inferior
Superior
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