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24 Cards in this Set
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Family: Arecaceae (Palm) |
Trees or shrubs with unbranched trunks. Large apical meristem. Leaves crowded at terminal crown, pinnately lobed and plicate (i.e., v-shaped). Fruit is a drupe. |
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Family: Bromeliaceae (Bromeliad) |
Rosette herbs with silica bodies in epidermal cells. Leaves often form a tank-like basal rosette to hold water. Leaves contain water storage tissue. Fruit is a capsule. |
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Family: Typhaceae (Cattail) |
Rhizomatous herbs in aquatic or wetland areas. Leaves alternate, 2-ranked, and linear. Leaves are spongy with air canals and sheath at the base around stem. Fruit is a drupe or follicle. |
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Family: Juncaceae (Rush) |
Herbs, with round, solid stems. Leaves alternate and 3-ranked composed a leaf blade and sheath that is open. Fruit is a capsule. |
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Family: Cyperaceae (Sedge) |
Herbs with a triangular stem. Leaves alternate and 3-ranked composed of a leaf blade and sheath that is closed. Fruit is an achene. |
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Family: Poaceae (Grass) |
Herbs with jointed stems that are round or elliptical. Leaves alternate and 2- ranked, composed of a leaf blade, ligule and sheaths tightly around stem. Fruit is a grain. |
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Family: Musaceae (Plantain or Banana) |
Large herbs from a corm-like rhizome, forming a false stem. Tissues with laticifers. Leaves alternate, spirally arranged. Leaves are large and simple, often tearing between veins. Fruit is a berry or fleshy capsule. |
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Family: Zingiberaceae (Ginger) |
Spicy, aromatic herbs with scattered secretory cells containing oils, terpeniods and phenyl-compounds. Leaves are simple, alternate and two-ranked. Fruit is a berry or capsule. |
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Family: Ranunculaceae (Buttercup) |
Herbs. Stems with vascular bundles arranged in concentric rings. Leaves are simple, usually alternate and spiraled. Fruit is a follicle or achene. |
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Family: Berberidaceae (Barberry) |
Herbs or shrubs. Wood is usually colored yellow by berberine (an alkaloid). Leaves usually alternate and spiraled. Fruit is a berry. |
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Family: Papaveraceae (Poppy) |
Herbs or shrubs. Laticifers present with colored sap containing various alkaloids. Leaves often lobed or dissected. Fruit is a capsule. |
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Family: Platanaceae (Sycamore) |
Trees. Bark comes off in large, irregular sheets leaving patchy, light-colored and smooth surface. Petiole base encloses axillary buds. Stipules present and conspicuous. Fruit is cluster of achenes. |
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Family: Altingiaceae (Sweetgum) |
Shrubs or trees. Secretory canals containing aromatic compounds. Leaves alternate and palmately lobed. Fruit is a cluster of capsules. |
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Family: Vitaceae (Grape) |
Lianas with tendrils that twine or have adhesive disks. Stem has swollen nodes with raphide sacs. Fruit is a berry. |
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Family: Oxalidaceae (Wood Sorrel) |
Herbs with bulb-like tubers containing high levels of soluble and crystalline oxalates. Leaves alternate forming a rosette, with a pulvinus. Fruit is a capsule or berry. |
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Family: Hypericaceae (Saint-John’s-Wort) |
Trees, shrubs or herbs with a clear or black resinous sap. Fruit is a capsule. |
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Family: Violaceae (Violet) |
Herbs with alternate leaves forming a basal rosette. Fruit is a capsule. |
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Family: Passifloraceae (Passion flower) |
Vines or lianas with axillary tendrils. Contain cyanogenic glucosides. Flowers with conspicuous bracts. Fruit is a capsule or berry. |
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Family: Salicaceae (Willow) |
Trees or shrubs with phenolic compounds. Leaves are deciduous, alternate and two-ranked. Fruit is a capsule, berry or drupe. |
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Family: Fabaceae (Legume or Bean) |
Herbs to trees with a high nitrogen metabolism with root nodules containing N- fixing bacterium Rhizobium. Leaves and leaflets with pulvinus. Fruit is a legume. |
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Family: Rosaceae (Rose) |
Herbs to trees. Thorns oftentimes present. Flowers are showy. Fruit is a follicle or achene. |
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Family: Ulmaceae (Elm) |
Trees. Leaves alternate with pinnate venation and secondary veins ending in the teeth of leaf margin. Blade has asymmetrical base. Fruit is a samara or nutlet. |
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Family: Cannabaceae (Hemp) |
Herbs to trees. Hairs simple and containing a glandular head containing aromatic substances or tetrahydrocannabinol. Fruit is a drupe |
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Family: Cucurbitaceae (Cucurbit) |
Vines with spirally coiled and branching tendrils coming from the nodes. Fruit is either a berry or a pepo, with a hard leathery rind. |