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World Wide Flowering Plant Family Identification
http://www.colby.edu/info.tech/BI211/PlantFamilyID.html
• 180 characters with two or more alternate states • The more information you collect, the fewer options you need explore… • Usefulness of synoptic descriptions • Plenty of information about families on the web!
Select the characters (states) that are present in the specimen being identified. Press Submit when ready to determine possible families. Pressing "Back" at the top of the window brings you back to this page keeping your character selections. LIST OF CHARACTERS Plant Habit 1. Woody plants (excl. suffrutices) 2. Herbaceous plants (incl. suffrutices) 3. Aquatic plants, leaves floating or submerged 4. Climbers, lianas 5. Chlorophyll absent (parasites or saprophytes) 6. Bulb present (monocots only) 7. Milky juice present 8. Spiny stems or leaves 9. Tendrils present 10. Cladodes or phyllodes (modified branches or petioles) Vestiture 11. Hairs glandular 12. Hairs stellate (also 2-armed, branched and tufted) 13. Hairs stellate (not 2-armed, branched an….
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Angiosperms: - Pollination was key to diversification
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Floral Formula: Collective flower parts: Perianth:
• calyx sepal
• corolla • petal
Androecium: • stamen anther filament
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Floral Formula: Collective flower parts:
Gynoecium: • pistil(s) ovary(ies) carpel style stigma
syncarpous
apocarpous
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Floral Formula:
Ca Co A G # # # #
Hypogynous flower ! 3
connation
Ca
Co
A
G
# #
#
Epigynous flower
5
A 5
Co #
adnation
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Anemone japonica
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Floral Formula: Floral Formula:
Ca Co
A G
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Floral Diagram
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Ranunculaceae:
60 genera 1700 species
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Gladiolus spp. (~240)
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Iridaceae: 80 genera 1500 species
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Monocots vs Dicots:
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Angiosperms: - Relationships of angiosperms: Monocots vs Dicots
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Amborella trichopoda
Dioecious male: P5-8, A∞ female: P5-8,G5-6 superior
Amborellaceae
monotypic
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Basal Angiosperms: Magnoliaceae
Synoecious P∞, A∞, G∞ [2-∞] superior
7 genera 219 species
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Basal Angiosperms: Magnoliaceae
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Aristolochiaceae
Basal Angiosperms:
Synoecious Ca(3),Co0[3],A6-∞ usu. adnate to style, G(4-6) inferior (half-inferior)
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Basal Angiosperms: Nymphaeaceae
Synoecious Ca4-6 [-14], Co8-∞ [0], A∞, G(3-∞) superior or inferior Aquatic rhyzomatous herbs
3-6 genera
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Araceae Basal Angiosperms:
100 genera 3700 species
spathe & spadix
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Looking, describing, naming is …
seeing! Families to know:
Ranunculaceae (Ranunculales – Eudicots) Iridaceae (Asparagales - Monocots) Amborellaceae (Amborellales) Magnoliaceace (Magnoliales – Magnoliids) Araceae (Alismatales - Monocots) Aristolochiaceae (Piperales - Magnoliids) Nymphaeaceae (Nymphaeales)
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Magnoliids
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