Floral Morphology Text

• Receptacle
• Peduncle
• Perianth
  • sepals (calyx)
  • petals (corolla)
• Androecium
  • stamens
    • filaments
    • anthers
      • pollen
      • connective
• Gynoecium
  • carpels
    • ovary
    • style
    • stigma

• complete
• incomplete
• perfect
• imperfect
  • staminate
  • carpellate

• synoecious
• monoecious
• dioecious

• distinct
• connate
• adnate
• free

• biseriate
• uniseriate
• apetalous
• caducous sepals
• sympetalous
  • floral tube, throat, and lobes
• 3-merous, 4-merous, etc.
• symmetry
  • actinomorphic (radial, regular)
  • zygomorphic (bilateral, irregular)
• petal shape
  • tubular
  • funnelform
  • campanulate
  • urceolate
  • salverform
  • rotate

• staminodes
• epipetalous
• alternate with petals
• opposite petals

• carpel
• carpel 1 per flower (monocarpous)
• carpels more than 1 per flower
• carpels distinct (apocarpous)
• carpels connate (syncarpous)
• [pistil]
• [simple pistil]
• [compound pistil
• placentation
  • ovules
  • locules
  • placentae
  • septum (septa)
  • marginal
  • axile
  • septa
  • locules
  • parietal
  • apical
  • basal
  • free-central

• floral cup or tube

• superior ovary
  • hypogynous flower
  • perigynous flower
• half-inferior (not in your text)
  • perigynous
• inferior ovary
  epigynous

An axis bearing one or more carpels or one or more stamens or both and usually one or two series of perianth parts.