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Flowers, Inflorescences & Fruits
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• Floral characteristics are the most commonly features to identify plants
• Much more reliable than vegetative characteristics
Flowers, Inflorescence & Fruits
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Flower
• A typical flower is a stem tip bearing two whorls of appendages that are sterile and two that are fertile
• All four whorls are considered to be modified leaves
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• Typical flower– 4 main parts
Flower
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• Sterile parts– Sepals: protect flower
bud• All sepals called calyx
– Petals: pretty parts that attract pollinators• All petals called corolla
– Calyx and corolla make up the perianth
Flower
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• Fertile parts– Stamens
• Male reproductive structures– Anther – Filaments
– All stamens called androecium
Flower
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• Fertile parts– Carpel
• Stigma• Style • Ovary
– All carpels called the gynoecium
Flower
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Presence or Absence of PartsTerms Applied to Individual Flowers
• Complete: has all the floral parts– Sepals– Petals– Stamens– Carpels
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• Incomplete: missing one of more of the floral parts
Presence or Absence of PartsTerms Applied to Individual Flowers
Ginger flower missing petals
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• Perfect (=bisexual): flower with both stamens and carpels
Presence or Absence of PartsTerms Applied to Individual Flowers
Grape flower with stamens and carpels
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Presence or Absence of PartsTerms Applied to Individual Flowers
• Imperfect (=unisexual): missing stamens or carpels, but not both
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• Staminate (=male): unisexual flower with just stamens present
Presence or Absence of PartsTerms Applied to Individual Flowers
Imperfect staminate flower; stamens only, no carples
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• Carpellate (=female): unisexual flower just carpels present
Presence or Absence of PartsTerms Applied to Individual Flowers
Imperfect carpellate flower; carpel only; no stamens
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• Monoecious: any plant that has both staminate and carpellate flowers
Presence or Absence of PartsTerms Applied to Plants with Imperfect Flowers
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• Dioecious: plant that has either staminate flowers or carpellate flowers, but not both
Presence or Absence of PartsTerms Applied to Plants with Imperfect Flowers
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• The position of the gynoecium in relation to all the other floral parts is the basis for for the terminology used in keys and taxonomic descriptions
Insertion of Floral Parts
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• Hypogynous: the sepals, petals, and stamens are inserted under the carpel– Ovary is said to be
superior
Insertion of Floral Parts
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• In a perigynous flower, the sepal, petals, and stamens are fused together to form a cup called the hypanthium– The gynoecium sits
inside the cup but is not fused to it
– Ovary is said to be superior
Insertion of Floral Parts
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• In a epigynousflower, the sepals, petals, and stamens arise from a point above the ovary– Ovary is said to be
inferior
Insertion of Floral Parts
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Floral Symmetry
• Actinomorphic (=radial): cutting the flower in any pane produces a mirror image
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• Zygomorphic (=bilateral): can cut the flower in only one plane to get a mirror image
Floral Symmetry
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Inflorescence Types
• An inflorescence is an arrangement of one or more flowers on a floral axis
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• Inflorescence type determined by:– Number of flowers– Positional relationships– Degree of the
development of their pedicels
– Nature of their branching pattern
Inflorescence Types
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• Terminal: flower at the tip of a stem
Simple Inflorescences
Scarlet rose-mallow (Hibiscus coccineus)
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Compound Inflorescences
• Two or more flowers per inflorescence
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• Spike: elongate inflorescence; flowers are sessile, dense, or remote from one another
Compound Inflorescences
Spiked blazing star (Liatris spicata)
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• Catkin: a pendant or erect inflorescence in which unisexual flowers lack petals and are hidden by scaly bracts
Compound Inflorescences
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• Raceme: an elongate inflorescence of pedicellate flowers on an unbranched rachis
Compound Inflorescences
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• Umbel: a flat-topped or somewhat rounded inflorescence in which all of the pedicels arise from a common point at the tip of the peduncle
Compound Inflorescences
Butterfly weed (Asclepias sp.)
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• Corymb: a flat-topped or somewhat rounded inflorescence in which the pedicels of varying length are inserted along the rachis
Compound Inflorescences
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• Panicle: a much-branched inflorescence with a central rachis which bears branches which are themselves branched
Compound Inflorescences
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• Ripened or mature ovary
• Contains seeds
Fruits
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Fruit Types
• Dry fruits– Indehiscent– Dehiscent
• Fleshy fruits– True fruits– False fruits
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• Achene
Fruit TypesDry, Indehiscent
Sunflower (Helianthus sp.)
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• Caryopsis (=grain)
Fruit TypesDry, Indehiscent
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• Samara
Fruit TypesDry, Indehiscent
Maple (Acer sp.)
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• Schizocarp
Fruit TypesDry, Indehiscent
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• Capsule
Fruit TypesDry, Dehiscent
Mexican buckeye (Ungnadia speciosa)
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• Silique
Fruit TypesDry, Dehiscent
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• Legume
Fruit TypesDry, Dehiscent
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• Loment
Fruit TypesDry, Dehiscent
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• Follicle
Fruit TypesDry, Dehiscent
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Fleshy FruitsTrue Fruits
• Derived from a gynoecium of a single flower
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• Drupe
Fleshy FruitsTrue Fruits
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• Berry
Fleshy FruitsTrue Fruits
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• Pepo
Fleshy FruitsTrue Fruits
Stink gourd (Cucurbita foetidissima)
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• Pome
Fleshy FruitsTrue Fruits
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• Hesperidium
Fleshy FruitsTrue Fruits
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• Fruit derived from parts other than the gynoecium
Fleshy FruitsFalse Fruits
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• Accessory: fruit from the receptacle
Fleshy FruitsFalse Fruits
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• Aggregate: fruit formed from many separate flowers
Fleshy FruitsFalse Fruits
Magnolia (Magnolia sp.)
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• Multiple: fruits formed by the fusion of an entire inflorescence
Fleshy FruitsFalse Fruits
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• Syconium: a hollow, vase-like inflorescence with the flowers lining the inside
Fleshy FruitsFalse Fruits
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