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Plant Taxonomy (BIOL308) - Stephen G. Saupe, Ph.D.; Biology Department, College of St. Benedict/St. John's University, Collegeville, MN 56321; ssaupe@csbsju.edu; http://www.employees.csbsju.edu/ssaupe/ |
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Plant Taxonomy (BIOL308) - Stephen G. Saupe, Ph.D.; Biology Department, College of St. Benedict/St. John's University, Collegeville, MN 56321; ssaupe@csbsju.edu; http://www.employees.csbsju.edu/ssaupe/ |
A Typical Sequence of Characters in a Description
- General modifiers (i.e., large, small, evergreen, parasitic)
- Sex (i.e., synoecious, monoecious, dioecious)
- Plant duration (i.e., annual, biennial vs. perennial)
- Habit (i.e., herb, tree, shrub, vine);
- Roots
- Stem features (i.e., rhizome, tuber, nodes)
- Leaves (structure, arrangement, position, blade, sheath, ligule, petiole, stipules)
- Inflorescences (type, position, peduncle/rachis, bracts)
- Flowers (sex, symmetry, calyx, corolla, androecium, gynoecium, receptacle, pedicel)
- Fruits (type, receptacle)
- Seeds (type, coat, endosperm, placentation)
- Chromosome number
- Flowering data
- Habitat data
- Distribution
- Synonyms
- Remarks
- References
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