BIO 14 Plants

• Allium cepa - Onion - Bulb
• Coccinia grandis - tamlin - stem tendril
• bulb - consists of small stem tissue to which fleshy storage leaves are attached; storage and protection
• stem tendril - long and slender coiling branch usually found in vines; support
• Citrofortunella microcarpa - calamansi - thorn
• thorn - sharp-pointed outgrowth on stem
• Colocasia esculenta - gabi - corm
• Corm - globose stem surrounded by few scale-like leaves ; storage
• Cynodon dactylon - bermuda grass - runner
• runner - horizontal stem with long internodes growing aboveground
• Dioscorea alata - Ube - Tuber
• Tuber - thick underground storage stem usually having outer buds; storage
• Eichhornia crassipes - water hyacinth - runner
• Zingiber officinale - ginger - rhizome
• rhizome - horizontal stem growing underground usually having short internodes and scale-like leaves
• Homolocladium platycladum - centipede plant - cladophyll
• cladophyll - flattened stem resembling leaves
• solanum tuberosum - potato - tuber
• leaf sheath - protects the meristem from breaking; avoid damage of the meristematic tissue
• Monocot leaf are parallel venation; unifacial; sessile
• Zea mays - corn\
• oryza sativa - rice
• Nerium oleander - oleander
• ixora spp. - santan
• bract - leaf different from main photosynthetic leaves and often associated with flowers or inflorescences
• bulb scales - scale-like storage leaf attached to bulb
• spine - sharp-pointed leaf or leaf part
• swollen petiole - enlarged and buoyant petiole
• bud scale - small leaf forming a tight layer around stem tip
• leaf tendril - coiled and twining leaf or leaf part
• pitcher leaf - leaf shaped like a container
• pseudostem - structure formed by overlapping leaf bases
• succulent leaf - thick and fleshy leaf with low surface-to-volume ratio
• Eichhornia crassipes - water hyacinth; swollen petiole
• Nepenthes alata - pitcher plant - pitcher leaf
• Bougainvillea spp. - bogambilya - bract
• Ficus spp. - rubber plant - succulent plant
• Musa sapientum - banana - pseudostem
• Kalanchoe spp. - katakataka - Plantet
• Plantet - young or small plant, produced on the leaf margins or the aerial stems of another plant