Semi-Technical Description of a Typical Flowering Plant
- Various morphological features are used to describe a flowering plant.
- The description should be brief and simple, in scientific language and presented in a proper sequence.
- The plant is described beginning with its habit, vegetative characters - root, stem, and leaves and then floral characters inflorescence and flowers.
- After describing various parts of the plant, a floral diagram and a floral formula are presented.
- A floral diagram provides information about the number of parts of a flower, their arrangement and the relationship they have with one another.
- A floral formula represents the information given in a floral diagram in the form of an equation. Following symbols are used in constructing a floral formula.
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A floral diagram provides information about the number of parts of a flower, their arrangement and the relationship they have with one another.
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