Summary Morphology of flowering plant plant family flascard (plant family summarise)

Morphology of flowering plants (angiosperms) studies external structures like roots, stems, leaves, flowers, and fruits, crucial for classifying them into families. Key families (Fabaceae, Solanaceae, Liliaceae) are identified by vegetative (root/stem/leaf) and floral (inflorescence, flower) characters, often summarized by floral formulas. Slideshare Slideshare +2 Key Flowering Plant Families Fabaceae (Pulse Family): Typically herbs, shrubs, or trees with root nodules. Leaves are alternate, pinnate, or simple. Flowers are zygomorphic (bilateral symmetry), bisexual, with valvate or imbricate aestivation. The gynoecium is monocarpellary and superior. Solanaceae (Potato Family): Mostly herbs, shrubs, or small trees. Leaves are simple, alternate, and exstipulate. Flowers are actinomorphic (radial symmetry), bisexual, pentamerous (5 parts), with gamosepalous (fused) calyx and valvate corolla. Gynoecium is bicarpellary and syncarpous. Liliaceae (Lily Family - Monocot): Perennial herbs with underground bulbs, corms, or rhizomes. Leaves are usually basal, alternate, and linear. Flowers are actinomorphic and bisexual, with a perianth (sepals/petals not distinct), 6 stamens, and a tricarpellary, syncarpous ovary. Scribd Scribd +4 Core Morphological Features Inflorescence: The arrangement of flowers on the axis, classified mainly as racemose (main axis continues to grow) or cymose (main axis ends in a flower). Flower: Reproductive part containing calyx (sepals), corolla (petals), androecium (stamens), and gynoecium (pistil/ovary). Placentation: Arrangement of ovules within the ovary, often axile in families like Solanaceae. Fruit/Seed: Mature ovary after fertilization, with either one (monocot) or two (dicot) cotyledons.