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Biology · Ch 9 — Morphology of Flowering Plants

Study of some important families

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Study of some important families

A family is a group of plants that share a distinct set of common characters. Studying a family means building up a short, semi-technical description of a representative plant covering its habit, root, stem, leaf, inflorescence, flower (symmetry, sex, and each whorl with its aestivation), fruit and seed, and summarising the fl …