Inflorescence and the Floral Morphology of Angiosperms
The floral morphology of angiosperms describes the functional arrangement of the flowers. The manner of their occurrence and arrangement on the shoot is constant for…
Botany
7 Important Distinguishing Criteria of Angiosperms
There are 7 important distinguishing characters of angiosperms which botanist have used in studies and research and in characterizing these plants. These 7 distinguishing characters…
Floral Morphology and Anatomy of Gramineae
The family of the Gramineae is of the order Glumiflorae. It is a very large collection of some 620 genera, fifty-nine of them represented in…
Floral Morphology and Anatomy of Lileaceae
Lileaceae is a family of the order Liliiflorae. There are about two hundred genera of which nineteen are represented in great Britain. The members are…
Floral Morphology and Anatomy of Compositae
The compositae is the only British family of the order Asterales. It is the largest family of all flowering plants having over 900 genera and…
Floral Morphology and Anatomy of Labiatae
The Labiatae is another family of the Tubiflorae. There are about 170 genera of which twenty-five are represented in Great Britain. Most are perennial herbs,…
Floral Morphology and Anatomy of Scrophulariaceae
The Scrophulariaceae is a large family of over 200 genera of the order Tubiflorae. Twenty genera are represented in Britain. Nearly all the species are…
Floral Morphology and Anatomy of Salicaceae
There has been controversy over the relationships of the order to the other angiosperm orders because of the arrangement and structure of the flowers. These…
Floral Morphology and Anatomy of Rosaceae
This is one of the seven British families in the order Rosales. There are a total of ninety genera of which twenty-four are represented in…
Floral Morphology and Anatomy of Papilionaceae
This is the only British representative of the order Leguminosae. The family is very large, of 300 or more genera of which twenty-four can be…