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Monocot Plants (USDA)         Search

1: Habit [Unordered List]

• 1. Aquatics growing in or on water   (16 taxa)
• 2. Aquatic submerged   (9 taxa)
• 3. Aquatic emergent   (14 taxa)
• 4. Aquatic leaves floating   (11 taxa)
• 5. Aquatic fresh water   (16 taxa)
• 6. Aquatic marine   (4 taxa)
• 7. Terrestrial   (46 taxa)
• 8. Herbaceous   (54 taxa)
• 9. Woody   (11 taxa)
• 10. Trees or shrubs   (12 taxa)
• 11. Lianas or vines   (6 taxa)
• 12. Pseudostem from leaf bases   (7 taxa)
• 13. Epiphytes   (5 taxa)
• 14. Saprophytes (lack chlorophyll)   (3 taxa)
• 15. Annuals   (13 taxa)
• 16. Perennials   (57 taxa)

• 1. Rhizomes   (50 taxa)
• 2. Rhizomes aromatic   (2 taxa)
• 3. Bulbs   (8 taxa)
• 4. Corms   (13 taxa)
• 5. Tubers   (10 taxa)
• 6. Prop roots   (2 taxa)
• 7. Stolons or runners   (12 taxa)
• 8. Roots contractile   (5 taxa)
• 9. Roots aerial (adventitious)   (6 taxa)
• 10. Roots velamen   (2 taxa)
• 11. Sap clear   (55 taxa)
• 12. Sap milky   (2 taxa)
• 13. Sap red or orange   (1 taxon)

• 1. elongate   (44 taxa)
• 2. contracted   (32 taxa)
• 3. rounded   (49 taxa)
• 4. triangular   (1 taxon)
• 5. solid   (48 taxa)
• 6. hollow   (2 taxa)
• 7. aerenchyma   (9 taxa)
• 8. nodes swollen or brittle   (5 taxa)
• 9. spiny   (2 taxa)
• 10. swollen pseudobulbs   (2 taxa)

• 1. Leaves absent or scale-like   (3 taxa)
• 2. Leaves - petiolate   (23 taxa)
• 3. Leaves pulvinate   (1 taxon)
• 4. Leaves - sheathing at base   (50 taxa)
• 5. Leaves - sheath open   (41 taxa)
• 6. Leaves - sheath closed   (16 taxa)
• 7. Leaves - simple   (57 taxa)
• 8. Leaves - compound   (2 taxa)
• 9. Leaves - cauline   (40 taxa)
• 10. Leaves - basal (rosette)   (40 taxa)
• 11. Leaves - alternate   (56 taxa)
• 12. Leaves - opposite   (4 taxa)
• 13. Leaves - whorled   (8 taxa)
• 14. Leaves - ensiform (sword-shaped)   (9 taxa)
• 15. Leaves - unifacial   (5 taxa)
• 16. Leaves - 2-ranked (distichous)   (35 taxa)
• 17. Leaves - 3-ranked   (4 taxa)
• 18. Leaves - spiral   (42 taxa)
• 19. Leaves - linear or filiform (grass-like)   (36 taxa)
• 20. Leaves - blade broad   (24 taxa)
• 21. Leaves - blades plicate   (3 taxa)
• 22. Leaves - venetion parallel   (54 taxa)
• 23. Leaves - venetion reticulate   (2 taxa)
• 24. Leaves - venetion pinnate-parallel   (10 taxa)
• 25. Leaves - venetion palmate   (5 taxa)
• 26. Leaves - ligulate   (12 taxa)
• 27. Leaves - dense and fibrous   (8 taxa)
• 28. Leaves - soft   (53 taxa)
• 29. Leaves - succulent   (7 taxa)
• 30. Leaves - surface with peltate scales   (2 taxa)
• 31. Leaves - margins entire   (54 taxa)
• 32. Leaves - margins and tip spiny   (4 taxa)
• 33. Leaves - margins serrate   (5 taxa)
• 34. Leaves - tip tendril   (2 taxa)
• 35. Leaves with bidentate apex   (1 taxon)
• 36. Leaves with sulfurous onion smell   (1 taxon)

• 1. terminal   (47 taxa)
• 2. lateral or axillary   (23 taxa)
• 3. bracteate   (43 taxa)
• 4. scapose   (17 taxa)
• 5. flowers solitary   (14 taxa)
• 6. cymes   (17 taxa)
• 7. racemes   (31 taxa)
• 8. spikes   (34 taxa)
• 9. panicles   (20 taxa)
• 10. umbels   (17 taxa)
• 11. verticellate in whorls   (2 taxa)
• 12. heads   (8 taxa)
• 13. spikelets   (3 taxa)
• 14. fleshy spadix   (4 taxa)
• 15. subtended by large spathe (leaf-like bract)   (12 taxa)
• 16. bracts brightly colored   (7 taxa)
• 17. bracts brown membraneous   (9 taxa)
• 18. conelike   (2 taxa)
• 19. enclosed by distichous boat-shaped bracts   (3 taxa)
• 20. Flowers sessile   (20 taxa)
• 21. Flowers pedicellate   (42 taxa)
• 22. Flowers - pedicel articulated   (6 taxa)

• 1. Flowers unisexual   (24 taxa)
• 2. Plants dioecious   (15 taxa)
• 3. Plants monoecious   (15 taxa)
• 4. Flowers bisexual   (48 taxa)
• 5. Perianth present   (50 taxa)
• 6. Perianth reduced to bristles or scales   (9 taxa)
• 7. Perianth absent   (12 taxa)
• 8. Flowers minute barely visible   (15 taxa)
• 9. Flowers small   (38 taxa)
• 10. Flowers large and showy   (26 taxa)
• 11. Flowers 2 merous   (5 taxa)
• 12. Flowers 3 merous   (53 taxa)
• 13. Flowers 4 merous   (2 taxa)
• 14. Flowers resupinate (180 degree twist)   (1 taxon)
• 15. Flowers actinomorphic   (43 taxa)
• 16. Flowers zygomorphic   (20 taxa)
• 17. Flowers asymmetric   (3 taxa)
• 18. Floral bracteoles present   (45 taxa)
• 19. Glumes (empty bracts)   (3 taxa)

• 1. Tepals 6 (Sepals indistinguishable from petals)   (35 taxa)
• 2. Sepals distinguishable from petals   (15 taxa)
• 3. Sepals green   (12 taxa)
• 4. Sepals colored (not green)   (13 taxa)
• 5. Sepals chaffy   (6 taxa)
• 6. Sepals separate   (21 taxa)
• 7. Sepals united   (9 taxa)

• 1. Petals 3   (17 taxa)
• 2. Petals 4   (2 taxa)
• 3. Petals 5   (1 taxon)
• 4. Petals 6   (34 taxa)
• 5. Petals united into tube   (16 taxa)
• 6. Petals basally united   (26 taxa)
• 7. Petals mostly separate   (45 taxa)
• 8. Petals clawed   (2 taxa)
• 9. Petals deliquescent   (1 taxon)
• 10. Petals white (to pinkish)   (37 taxa)
• 11. Petals yellow   (32 taxa)
• 12. Petals greenish   (18 taxa)
• 13. Petals blue to purple   (12 taxa)
• 14. Petals orange to red   (15 taxa)
• 15. Petals brownish   (9 taxa)
• 16. Corona present   (4 taxa)

• 1. Stamens 1   (13 taxa)
• 2. Stamens 2   (9 taxa)
• 3. Stamens 3   (19 taxa)
• 4. Stamens 4 (2+2)   (6 taxa)
• 5. Stamens 5   (6 taxa)
• 6. Stamens 6 (3+3)   (40 taxa)
• 7. Stamens 9   (2 taxa)
• 8. Stamens numerous   (3 taxa)
• 9. Stamen filaments hairy   (3 taxa)
• 10. Stamens unequal in length   (3 taxa)
• 11. Staminodes present   (13 taxa)
• 12. Stamens petaloid   (4 taxa)
• 13. Stamens united with style in a column   (2 taxa)
• 14. Pollen in large waxy pollinia   (1 taxon)

• 1. Carpels separate (apocarpous)   (15 taxa)
• 2. Carpels united   (49 taxa)
• 3. Carpels partially united   (8 taxa)
• 4. Carpels 2   (8 taxa)
• 5. Carpels 3   (51 taxa)
• 6. Carpels 4   (2 taxa)
• 7. Carpels 6   (2 taxa)
• 8. Carpels many   (5 taxa)
• 9. Ovary superior   (43 taxa)
• 10. Ovary inferior   (21 taxa)
• 11. Ovary on gynophore   (5 taxa)
• 12. Styles 1   (52 taxa)
• 13. Styles 2   (2 taxa)
• 14. Styles 3 or 3-branched   (8 taxa)
• 15. Style winged petaloid   (3 taxa)
• 16. Stigma terminal capitate or trilobed   (51 taxa)
• 17. Stigma lateral   (6 taxa)
• 18. Stigma plumose or brush-like   (4 taxa)
• 19. Locules 1   (23 taxa)
• 20. Locules 3   (37 taxa)
• 21. Placentation axile   (33 taxa)
• 22. Placentation parietal   (7 taxa)
• 23. Placentation laminar   (3 taxa)
• 24. Placentation basal (or apical)   (18 taxa)
• 25. Bulbils present in flowers   (1 taxon)
• 26. Perigynium sac around ovary   (2 taxa)

• 1. Fruit - achene (nutlet)   (9 taxa)
• 2. Fruit - follicle   (8 taxa)
• 3. Fruit - capsule   (33 taxa)
• 4. Fruit - berry   (21 taxa)
• 5. Fruit - drupe   (7 taxa)
• 6. Fruit - caryopsis   (2 taxa)
• 7. Fruit - multiple   (2 taxa)
• 8. Fruit - warty   (3 taxa)
• 9. Fruit - winged   (5 taxa)
• 10. Fruit 1-seeded   (13 taxa)

• 1. Seeds - single per locule   (23 taxa)
• 2. Seeds - few (2-10) per locule   (28 taxa)
• 3. Seeds - numerous per locule   (31 taxa)
• 4. Seeds - minute dust-like   (3 taxa)
• 5. Seeds - fused to ovary wall   (3 taxa)
• 6. Seeds - with tuft of hair   (3 taxa)
• 7. Seeds - lacking tuft of hair   (27 taxa)
• 8. Seeds - keeled or winged   (8 taxa)
• 9. Seeds - with embryostega   (1 taxon)
• 10. Seeds - surface +/- smooth   (34 taxa)
• 11. Seeds - surface rough or ribbed   (15 taxa)
• 12. Seeds - round or ellipsoid   (38 taxa)
• 13. Seeds U-shaped   (3 taxa)
• 14. Seeds - angulate   (17 taxa)
• 15. Seeds - compressed or flattened   (8 taxa)
• 16. Seeds - arillate   (6 taxa)
• 17. Seeds - elaiosome   (2 taxa)
• 18. Seeds - black (phytomelan)   (12 taxa)