Flower types Flashcards

(11 cards)

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Complete Flower

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Contains all sepals, petals, stamens, and carpels

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Incomplete Flower

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Missing one or more of the sepals, petals, stamens, or carpels

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Imperfect flowers

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Lacking either male (androecium) or female (gynoecium) parts

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4
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Perfect Flowers

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Containing both male and female parts; hermaphroditic

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5
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Monoecious

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both male and female flowers present on one individual plant

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6
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Dioecious

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Male and female flowers are on separate plants

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7
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Hypogynous flowers

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Superior ovary; sepals and petals attach to the receptacle below the ovary

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8
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Superior Ovary

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sepals and petals attach to the receptacle BELOW the ovary

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9
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Epigynous flower

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Inferior ovary; sepals and petals attached above the ovary

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10
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Inferior ovary

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sepals and petals attached ABOVE the ovary

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11
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perigynous flowers

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the ovary can be either superior or 1/2 inferior

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