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LEC
03
Flowering
Plant
Terms
FIELD BOTANY – Lecture 03
Dr. Donald P. Althoff
Flowering …remember:
• _________ (flowers, that is) to Angiosperms
(= Magnoliophyta = Anthrophyta)
• Early plants (and still many today) probably
_________ with insects to facilitate transfer
of pollen more efficiently, when compared to
wind- or water-transferred pollen
• The reward for the animal pollen transporter
is a ____________ food
HAWK
MOTH
BEETLES NOCTURID
MOTHS
FLIES
DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA
BATS
BEES
HUMMINGBIRD
“____________” flower
stigma
style
ovary
anther
filament
corolla
calyx
_____________ Flowers
Composite Flowers
DISK = _________________________________
Bracts = __________ = ________________
…terms associated with composite flower types
A reduced “_____________________ at the base of
a flower (they “subtend” the flower cluster)
Scape = __________________
arising from ground level (usually
from a basal rosette) in plants
without stems.
Leaves of these plants are almost
always all basal
(ex. dandelion, early saxifrage)
____________________….
a group or cluster of flowers
arranged on a stem
DETERMINATE
INFLORESCENCE
2
1
2
First flower to open is
at the top or middle….
2
1
2
1
INDETERMINATE
INFLORESCENCE
First flowers to open are
at the base….
INDETERMINATE
INFLORESCENCE
Determinant or
Indeterminate florescence?