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General	Leaf	Flower/Infl.	Fruit/Seed/Cone	Stem/Root
Habit Tree Shrub, subshrub, shrublet Herbaceous vine Woody vine Forb Pteridophyte (Fern or fern-related) Tree fern Cactus-like Leaves succulent or conspicuously fleshy Grass or grass-like Gymnosperm Cycad or palm-like Agave-like Monocot Dicot Tiny, thalloid-like (often chain-forming), and floating or free floating Duration Annual Biennial Perennial Armament Stems or leaves spined, barbed or thorned Fruits/cones spined, barbed or thorned or hooked Latex Colored sap present Tendril Tendril with disks Tendril without disks Trophic-Level Carnivorous plant Saprophytic/hemi-saprophytic plant Achlorophyllous plant Habitat Alpine or subalpine Aquatic Freshwater aquatic Marine aquatic Emergent aquatic Floating aquatic Submerged aquatic Wetland Epiphytic/hemi-epiphytic/parasitic/hemi-parasitic plant	Position Leaves opposite or whorled Leaves alternate (excl. distichous monocots and gymnosperms) Leaves distichous (monocots and gymnosperms only) Leaves equitant (e.g. Iris) Leaves spirally arranged (often appearing 2-ranked in gymnosperms) Leaves fascicled Type/# Leaflet Leaves peltate Leaf simple Leaves compound Leaves pinnately or bipinnately compound (4 to many leaflets) Leaves ternately compound (3 leaflets) Leaves palmately compound (4 to many leaflets) Leaves reduced to scales or sheathes Margin Leaves or leaflets with entire margin (unlobed or untoothed) Leaves or leaflets lobed or divided Leaves or leaflets toothed (dentate, serrate, crenate, etc.) Venation Venation pinnate or occasionally hardly visible in leaves or leaflets Venation 1-nerved (monocots only) or completely invisible Venation longitudinal from base in leaves or leaflets (incl. 3-nerve leaves) Venation palmate in leaves or leaflets Vestiture Leaf epidermis papillose (dicots only) Leaves with pellucid or glandular dots or lines Stem hairs glandular Stem hairs stellate (also 2-armed, branched and tufted) Stem hairs stellate (not 2-armed, branched and tufted) Stem hairs 2-armed or T-shaped, non-glandular Stem hairs branched Stem hairs tufted, non-glandular Stem hairs peltate or scale-like Stem hairs vesicular or bladder-like Stem hairs stinging (chemically acting) Cystoliths present (dicots only) Duration Leaves evergreen (trees/shrubs) Leaves deciduous (trees/shrubs) Leaves succulent or conspicuously fleshy Stip./Petiole Leaves with a ligule Stipules absent (dicots only) Stipules present (only the scars may be left; dicots only) Cladodes or phyllodes (modified branches or petioles)	Color Main flower color white Main flower color yellow Main flower color orange Main flower color red Main flower color pink Main flower color purple Main flower color blue Main flower color green Main flower color maroon, brown, or blackish Perianth spotted, dotted, blotched, striped or multicolored Season Spring flowering Summer flowering Fall flowering Winter flowering Type Flowers solitary Inflorescence a spadix/spathe, simple, compound, sympodial or monopodial (amentiferous flowers) Inflorescence a raceme, simple and monopodial Inflorescence a spike, simple and monopodial Inflorescence a corymb, simple and monopodial Inflorescence an umbel, simple and monopodial Inflorescence a fascicle, simple and monopodial Inflorescence a head, simple and monopodial Inflorescence simple and sympodial (cyme, dichasium etc.) Inflorescence compound, sympodial or monopodial (panicle, thyrsus etc.) Fusion Sepals all free from one another Sepals connate (at least two of them) Sepals imbricate or contorted Sepals valvate Petals all free from one another Petals connate (at least two of them) Petals imbricate Petals contorted Petals valvate Corona present, or scales in the throat Sexuality Plants bisexual to perfect or hermaphrodite Plants unisexual - monoecious Plants unisexual - dioecious Plants gynomonoecious Plants gynodioecious Plants polygamo-monoecious Plants polygamo-dioecious Plants andromonoecious Plants androdioecious Shape Flowers regular actinomorphic Flowers irregular zygomorphic Part Number Perianth segments 0 Perianth segments 1 Perianth segments 2 Perianth segments 3 Perianth segments 4 Perianth segments 5 Perianth segments 6 Perianth segments more than 6 Perianth comprised of similar segments Perianth comprised of calyx and corolla Sepals 0 (incl. a cupular calyx without lobes) Sepals 1 Sepals 2 Sepals 3 Sepals 4 Sepals 5 Sepals more than 5 Petals 0 (incl. a cupular corolla without lobes) Petals 1 Petals 2 Petals 3 Petals 4 Petals 5 Petals 6 Petals 7 Petals 8 Petals 9 Petals 10 Petals more than 10 Anther 1, fertile Anthers 2, fertile Anthers 3, fertile Anthers 4, fertile Anthers 5, fertile Anthers 6, fertile Anthers 7, fertile Anthers 8, fertile Anthers 9, fertile Anthers 10, fertile Anthers more than 10, fertile Stamens the same number as and opposite the petals or alternate with the sepals Stamen/Ovary Pos. Ovary superior (receptacle small) Ovary inferior (receptacle enlarged, united with the ovary, totally or partially covering it) Ovary superior or inferior (receptacle enlarged, totally or partially free from the ovary) Ovaries superior (receptacle enlarged, conical or hemispherical) Hypogynous disc present (annular or separate glands) Hypogynous disc absent Stamens the same number as and opposite the petals or alternate with the sepals Flowers obdiplostemonous (fertile stamens only) Anthers dorsifixed or ventrifixed Anthers basifixed Anthers introrse Anthers extrorse Anthers opening by longitudinal slits Anthers opening by apical pores Anthers opening by valves Anthers 1-locular at anthesis Stamens free from the corolla Stamens inserted on the corolla Filaments not connate Filaments connate into 1 tube or bundle Filaments connate into separate bundles Anthers with a conspicuous appendage Pollen coherent into pollinia or wax-like masses Staminodia present (in male or perfect flowers only) Gynophore present Styles absent, stigmas sessile Styles more than 1, free (carpels connate) Styles 1, or styles more or less connate (carpels free or connate) Styles gynobasic Carpel 1 Carpels 2 (free or united) Carpels 3 (free or united) Carpels 4 (free or united) Carpels 5 (free or united) Carpels more than 5 (free or united) Ovary 1-locular (incl. apocarpae) Ovary 2-locular Ovary 3-locular Ovary 4-locular Ovary 5-locular Ovary with more than 5 locules Ovule 1 in each loculus Ovules 2 in each loculus Ovules more than 2 in each loculus Carpels free from each other or carpel 1 Ovules parietal, carpels connate Ovules axile, carpels connate Ovules attached to central axis or ventrally if carpels free or if carpel 1 Ovules attached to the apex of the ovary Ovules attached to the base of the ovary	Texture Fruit fleshy (berry, drupe, pome) Fruit dry Type Fruit a nut (incl. achene, loment, schizocarp etc.) Fruit a capsule (incl. pod, follicle etc.) Arillus or aril-like organs present Cone-like reproduction structure Shape Fruits winged Seeds winged Embryo straight Embryo curved Cotyledons folded or crumpled Vestiture Fruits wind dispersed via long and numerous hairs Fruits with retrorsely barbed, hook-like or glochidiate hairs Seeds with hairs Part Number Fruit with 1 seed Fruit with 2 seeds Fruit with more than 2 seeds Endosperm Seeds without endosperm Seeds with endosperm Endosperm ruminate	Stem/Twig Shape Twig cross-section round Twig cross-section square Twig cross-section triangular Stem ribbed or jointed Stem trailing or creeping Stem hollow/fistulose Texture/Durat. Stem woody (excl. suffrutices) Stem herbaceous (incl. suffrutices) Vestiture Hairs glandular Hairs stellate (also 2-armed, branched and tufted) Hairs stellate (not 2-armed, branched and tufted) Hairs 2-armed or T-shaped, non-glandular Hairs branched Hairs tufted, non-glandular Hairs peltate or scale-like Hairs vesicular or bladder-like Hairs stinging (chemically acting) Cystoliths present (dicots only) Root Bulb/geophyte plant Pneumatophore present