Botany
122:
Flowering Plant Identification
Flowering Plant Identification
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Botany
122:
Flowering Plant Identification |
| Glossary |
Iridaceae: Iris Family |
| Family: | Iridaceae Iris Family |
| 80/1500 11/34 pg. 1151 | |
| Habit | Herbaceous perennials |
| Stem: | Rhizomes or corms |
| Leaves: | Keeled and equitant (outside leaf astride the inner) |
| Inflorescence: | Various, racemes, spikes or umbels |
| Flower: | Perfect, epigynous |
| Perianth: | 3-merous, inner and outer whorls often dissimilar |
| Calyx: | 3 sepals, petaloid |
| Corolla: | 3 petals |
| Hypanthium: | Ø |
| Androecium: | 3 stamens |
| Gynoecium: | Syncarpous 3 |
| Ovary position: | Inferior |
| Stigma: | Various, petaloid in the genus Iris |
| Style: | United |
| Fruit type: | Capsule |
| Other: | |
| Representatives: | Iris |
 
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