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Character/Data Set Information
Monocot Plants (USDA)
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Character List
1: Habit [Unordered List]
- 1. Aquatics growing in or on water (16 taxa)
- 4. Aquatic leaves floating (11 taxa)
- 12. Pseudostem from leaf bases (7 taxa)
- 14. Saprophytes (lack chlorophyll) (3 taxa)
2: Roots [Unordered List]
- 9. Roots aerial (adventitious) (6 taxa)
3: Stems [Unordered List]
- 8. nodes swollen or brittle (5 taxa)
- 10. swollen pseudobulbs (2 taxa)
4: Leaves [Unordered List]
- 1. Leaves absent or scale-like (3 taxa)
- 4. Leaves - sheathing at base (50 taxa)
- 6. Leaves - sheath closed (16 taxa)
- 10. Leaves - basal (rosette) (40 taxa)
- 12. Leaves - opposite (4 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)
- 19. Leaves - linear or filiform (grass-like) (36 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)
- 27. Leaves - dense and fibrous (8 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)
5: Inflorescence [Unordered List]
- 11. verticellate in whorls (2 taxa)
- 15. subtended by large spathe (leaf-like bract) (12 taxa)
- 16. bracts brightly colored (7 taxa)
- 17. bracts brown membraneous (9 taxa)
- 19. enclosed by distichous boat-shaped bracts (3 taxa)
- 22. Flowers - pedicel articulated (6 taxa)
6: Flowers [Unordered List]
- 6. Perianth reduced to bristles or scales (9 taxa)
- 8. Flowers minute barely visible (15 taxa)
- 10. Flowers large and showy (26 taxa)
- 14. Flowers resupinate (180 degree twist) (1 taxon)
- 15. Flowers actinomorphic (43 taxa)
- 17. Flowers asymmetric (3 taxa)
- 18. Floral bracteoles present (45 taxa)
- 19. Glumes (empty bracts) (3 taxa)
7: Sepals/Tepals [Unordered List]
- 1. Tepals 6 (Sepals indistinguishable from petals) (35 taxa)
- 2. Sepals distinguishable from petals (15 taxa)
- 4. Sepals colored (not green) (13 taxa)
8: Petals/Tepals [Unordered List]
- 5. Petals united into tube (16 taxa)
- 7. Petals mostly separate (45 taxa)
- 10. Petals white (to pinkish) (37 taxa)
- 13. Petals blue to purple (12 taxa)
9: Stamens [Unordered List]
- 9. Stamen filaments hairy (3 taxa)
- 10. Stamens unequal in length (3 taxa)
- 13. Stamens united with style in a column (2 taxa)
- 14. Pollen in large waxy pollinia (1 taxon)
10: Pistil [Unordered List]
- 1. Carpels separate (apocarpous) (15 taxa)
- 3. Carpels partially united (8 taxa)
- 11. Ovary on gynophore (5 taxa)
- 14. Styles 3 or 3-branched (8 taxa)
- 15. Style winged petaloid (3 taxa)
- 16. Stigma terminal capitate or trilobed (51 taxa)
- 18. Stigma plumose or brush-like (4 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)
11: Fruit [Unordered List]
- 1. Fruit - achene (nutlet) (9 taxa)
12: Seeds [Unordered List]
- 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)
- 15. Seeds - compressed or flattened (8 taxa)
- 17. Seeds - elaiosome (2 taxa)
- 18. Seeds - black (phytomelan) (12 taxa)
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