Integrative Biology 335: Systematics of Plants

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Default Conditions for Flowering Plants
These are the default conditions for the flowering plant families that we will cover this term. Unless otherwise stated, expect families to have the following characters:

Flowers: Perfect (and, therefore, the plants synoecious), complete, actinomorphic, no adnation or connation, ovary superior, insertion hypogynous

Inflorescences: no default conditions

Fruits: no default conditions

Habit: no default conditions

Leaves: Alternate, simple

 

Some Textbooks	Class Notes
Regular/Radial	Actinomorphic
Irregular/Bilateral	Zygomorphic
Carpels distinct	Apocarpous
Carpels connate	Syncarpous

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