Take one flower each of the families Fabaceae and Solanaceae and write its semi-technical description. Also draw their floral diagram after studying them.
Semi-technical descriptions of flowers of following families are:
Fabaceae
Family - Fabaceae
Vegetative characters
Herb
Leaf: Pinnately compound, alternately arranged with leaf tendrils with the pulvinus present at the leaf base. Venation is reticulate.
Root: Tap root system with root nodules.
Floral features:
Inflorescence: racemose .
Flower: zygomorphic and bisexual.
Calyx: Sepals which are gamosepalous while aestivation is imbricate.
Corolla: five petals (polypetalous) with vexillary aestivation.
Androecium: ten anthers that are diadelphous with dithecous anthers.
Gynoecium: Monocarpellary superior ovary which is unilocular with marginal placentation.
Fruit: Legume pod with non-endospermic seeds
Floral formula:
Floral Diagram:
Solanaceae
Solanum lycopersicum (Tomato)
Family - Solanaceae
Vegetative characters
Shrub
Stem: herbaceous stem, aerial, erect , branched solid
Leaf: alternate , simple, exstipulate and reticulate venation
Floral features:
Inflorescence: Cymose
Flower: bisexual and actinomorphic.
Calyx: five sepals, united persistant, valvate aestivation
Corolla: five petals, united, valvate aestivation
Androecium: five stamens, epipetalous
Gynoecium: bicarpellary, syncarpous superior ovary, bilocular, placenta swollen with many ovules
Fruit: berry
Seeds: many endosperms