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Eudicots
One of the major clades of flowering plants composed of the majority of the classical dicots; those with pollen of three pores (tricolpate) or derived from this condition.
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Ejaculator
A structure that actively shoots pollen or seeds away.
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Dorsifixed anthers
Where the filament is attached between the base and the apex of the anther.
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Dicot
Flowering plant in which the embryos have two seed leaves.
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Coenosorus
A group of fern sori that have coalesced to look like a single large sorus.
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Centripetalous
Developing from the margin towards the middle.
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CAM photosynthesis
Crassulacean acid metabolism is a carbon fixation pathway specific to some plants growing under arid conditions. These plants collect CO2 only during the night which is stored as a 4-carbon malate; during the day, when stomata are closed, this is transported to chloroplasts where it is converted to CO2 and then used for conventional photosynthesis…
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C4 photosynthesis
A metabolic pathway during photosynthesis in which CO2 is incorporated into a 4-carbon organic acid, which has the ability to regenerate CO2 in chloroplasts aggregated in bundle sheath cells that then utilise this CO2 to generate carbohydrates the conventional way, but saving water in the process.
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C3 photosynthesis
A metabolic pathway during photosynthesis in which carbon is fixed by converting a 5-carbon sugar (ribulose biphosphate) and CO2 into 3-phosphoglycerate.
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Axile placentation
A form of placentation (seed positions) for an ovary in which the ovules are attached to the central axis of the ovary.
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