Flower Formula
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Created by:
bluelulu on March 30, 2010
Subjects:
Plant Terminology, flower structure, botany
Description:
It is possible to display a great deal of information about the structure of a flower by using a system of notation called the "floral formula". The conventions used in writing them have not been standardized, so that references vary slightly in their choice of abbreviations and in some de (see more)
Classes:
LANHT23: Landscape Horticulture-Plant Terminology
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26 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Ca | calyx |
| Co | corolla |
| A | androecium |
| G | gynoecium |
| calyx of 5 sepals |  |
| androecium of 10 stamens |  |
| 6 stamens; 4 in one set, two in another |  |
| gynoecium of 2 or 3 carpels |  |
| petals of a low unstable number, about 10-20 |  |
| carpel number high and unstable, well over 20 |  |
| corolla missing; no petals |  |
| androecium usually of 4 stamens, sometimes |  |
| CA | corolla actinomorphic |
| CO | calyx zygomorphic |
| CAZ | corolla zygomorphic |
| COZ | corolla sometimes zygomorphic |
| calyx of 5 fused sepals |  |
| gynoecium of 2 fused carpels |  |
| gynoecium of 5 separate carpels |  |
| androecium of 5 stamens fused by their filaments |  |
| 5 stamens inserted on a sympetalous, 5 parted corolla |  |
| calyx and corolla united |  |
| androecium and gynoecium united by their upper parts |  |
| ovary superior; flower hypogynous or perigynous |  |
| ovary inferior; flower epigynous |  |
| ovary either superior or inferior |  |
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