Flowers

Cards (61)

  • A reproductive organ from flowering plants
    Flower
  • Stalk that holds the flower
    Pedicel
  • Where the floral parts arise
    Receptacle
  • Protects the flower while it is still a bud
    Sepal
  • Collective term for sepals
    Calyx
  • Collective term for petals, attracts insects
    Corolla
  • Colored-leaf like part of the flower
    Petal
  • Collective term for petals and sepals
    Perianth
  • Seed bearing organ
    Pistil
  • What is the Pistil composed off?
    Stigma, Style, Ovary
  • United : Syncarpous
    Free : Apocarpous
  • Female part of the pistil
    Gynoecium
  • Basal part that contains ovules
    Ovary
  • Develop into seeds and contains egg cells
    Ovule
  • Cavity with the ovary
    Locule
  • Passage way for pollen
    Style
  • Sticky part of the style that holds pollen on pollination
    Stigma
  • It is the male part of the flower
    Stamen
  • Holds pollen grain production
    Anther
  • It supports the anther
    Filament
  • It has a sepal, petal, stamen, and pistil
    Complete Flower
  • Lacks one or more floral part
    incomplete flower
  • Has both stamen and pisyel but may miss sepals and petals, also called bisexual flower
    Perfect Flower
  • Either have stamen or pistil, unisexual
    Imperfect Flower
  • Similarly-shaped petals, actinomorphic
    Regular
  • Not symmetric petal, different size
    Irregular Flower
  • Standard petal is usually the largest
    Papilionaceous
  • Standard petal is the smallest
    Caesalpinaceous
  • Flower has three petals and one has different size
    Orchidaceous
  • One axis into two equal halves, regular
    Radial Symmetry
  • Distinctly divisible into right and left
    Bilateral symmetry
  • Half inferior ovary
    Perigynous
  • Superior ovary
    Hypogynous
  • Inferior ovary
    Epigynous
  • Vertical placentation
    Marginal
  • Margin to margin, found at the wall
    Parietal
  • On the base
    Basal
  • Middle of ovary
    Axile
  • Fusion of different parts
    Adnation
  • Fusion of same parts
    Connation