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Plant Family Features and Characteristics

The document provides a comparative overview of the Compositae (Asteraceae) family alongside several other plant families, detailing their floral characteristics such as calyx, corolla, aestivation, sepal and petal fusion, gynoecium structure, carpel fusion, and placentation. Each family is described with specific features, highlighting differences in floral morphology. This information is essential for understanding the classification and identification of these plant families.

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Plant Family Features and Characteristics

The document provides a comparative overview of the Compositae (Asteraceae) family alongside several other plant families, detailing their floral characteristics such as calyx, corolla, aestivation, sepal and petal fusion, gynoecium structure, carpel fusion, and placentation. Each family is described with specific features, highlighting differences in floral morphology. This information is essential for understanding the classification and identification of these plant families.

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Compositae (Asteraceae) - Compositae (Asteraceae) -

Feature/Family Cruciferae (Brassicaceae) Fabaceae Solanaceae Liliaceae Gramineae (Poaceae) Malvaceae


Ray Florets Disk Florets
Five sepals,
Four sepals, Five sepals, Five sepals, Six tepals (3+3), often Membranous scales
gamosepalous, Absent or reduced to Absent or reduced to
Calyx polysepalous, gamosepalous, gamosepalous, united into a tube, (lodicules),
valvate, epicalyx pappus pappus
imbricate aestivation valvate or imbricate persistent, valvate valvate sometimes absent
present
Five petals,
Four petals, Five petals, Five petals, Five petals,
polypetalous, Six tepals (3+3), Absent or reduced to Five petals,
polypetalous, gamopetalous, gamopetalous, gamopetalous,

I
Corolla
papilionaceous, valvate lodicules polypetalous, twisted

ON
cruciform, valvate valvate ligulate, valvate tubular, valvate
vexillary

Aestivation Imbricate Valvate or imbricate Valvate Valvate Not applicable Valvate Valvate Valvate

S.S
Absent or
Sepal Fusion Polysepalous Gamosepalous Gamosepalous Gamosepalous Gamosepalous Absent or reduced Absent or reduced
membranous

Petal Fusion Polypetalous Polypetalous Gamopetalous Gamopetalous Absent or reduced Polypetalous Gamopetalous Gamopetalous

Bicarpellary, syncarpous, superior Monocarpellary or tricarpellary, Pentacarpellary, syncarpous,


Monocarpellary, unilocular, superior Bicarpellary, syncarpous, superior Tricarpellary, syncarpous, superior Bicarpellary, syncarpous, inferior Bicarpellary, syncarpous, inferior
Gynoecium ovary, unilocular, parietal
ovary ovary, bilocular, axile placentation ovary, trilocular, axile placentation
superior ovary, unilocular, basal multilocular superior ovary, axile
ovary, unilocular, basal placentation ovary, unilocular, basal placentation
placentation placentation placentation

S.S
Monocarpellary, or
ONI
CARPEL Bicarpellary, Monocarpellary, Bicarpellary, tricarpellary, pentacarpellary, Bicarpellary, Bicarpellary,
tricarpellary,

FUSION syncarpous, 1 syncarpous, syncarpous, 1 syncarpous, syncarpous, syncarpous,


NI
SO

POSITION superior ovary, superior ovary superior ovary, superior ovary, superior ovary, superior ovary, inferior ovary, inferior ovary,
S.

CAVITY unilocular, unilocular Bilocular trilocular unilocular multilocular unilocular unilocular

PLACENTATION parietal placentation MARGINAL axile placentation axile placentation basal placentation axile placentation basal placentation basal placentation

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