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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #123] What are the species of the Berberidaceae family? Photo list

Berberidaceae are perennial herbs or shrubs. Their leaves are alternate and can be simple or compound. The sepals are arranged in groups of three in 3-4 whorls, or two in 4 whorls; the outer 1-2 whorls are smaller and fall off quickly during flowering, while the inner 2 whorls are larger and petal-like. The petals are 2 or...

2022.11.02

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #122] What are the species of the Menispermaceae family? Photo list

The family Menispermaceae consists of evergreen or deciduous climbing woody plants, and rarely, erect shrubs. The leaves are alternate, simple, and palmately venate. Stipules are absent. Inflorescences are mostly axillary. They are usually dioecious. The fruit is a drupe. They are common in tropical regions and comprise 71 genera and approximately 4...

2022.10.31

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #121] What are the species of the Akebia family? Photo list

The Lardizabalaceae family consists mainly of climbing woody plants, with shrubs being rare. The leaves are trifoliate or palmately compound with five leaflets. The flowers are unisexual, monoecious, and borne in racemes, radially symmetrical and trimeral. The sepals are petal-like. The fruit is an ellipsoidal berry with a fleshy pericarp. (Eastern Asia...).

2022.10.31

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #119] What are the species of the poppy family? Photo list

The Papaveraceae family consists of herbaceous plants whose stems and leaves are often covered in a powdery white substance. Breaking the stem releases a milky white or orange-yellow sap. The leaves are alternate, pinnately lobed or pinnately compound, sometimes simple, and lack stipules. The flowers are bisexual, radially symmetrical, or bilaterally symmetrical. The sepals are 2-4 in number and separate...

2022.10.28

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07.1126 Waterweed (Ceratophyllum demersum) - Whole Form (Scaled)

[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #117] What are the species of the Ceratophyllum family? Photo list

The family Ceratophyllaceae consists of brittle, hard, freshwater submerged herbs. They lack roots, instead anchoring themselves with modified rhizoids (root systems) formed from branches. Stems are elongated and branched, and leaves are whorled and branch several times. Stipules are absent. The flowers are monoecious or dioecious, with approximately 10 perianth segments (also called involucral bracts), and male...

2022.10.27

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #116] What are the types of grasses? Photo list

The grass family (Poaceae) consists of annual to perennial herbs, or plants with woody, perennial stems. The stem, called a "culm," has septa at the nodes, and the rest of the stem is hollow or contains pith. Leaves are arranged alternately in two rows and consist of a leaf blade and a leaf sheath. The leaf blade is often linear, and the leaf sheath is wide...

2022.10.26

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #111] What are the species of Cyperaceae? Photo List

The Cyperaceae family consists of annual or perennial herbs. Most have solid, triangular stems. The leaves are linear, with the base forming a tubular sheath. Some genera, such as *Erigeron annuus*, *Scirpus juncoides*, *Scutellaria*, and *Cyperus*, have reduced leaf blades, leaving only a sheath...

2022.10.15

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Posts 4155 Featured Image Terrestrial Aquatic Insect Identification Books

List of references for identifying terrestrial and aquatic insects (continuously being edited)

This article compiles literature for identifying insects. The focus is primarily on literature containing identification keys that allow for reliable species identification. While all taxonomic groups are covered, this is based on personal needs and observations, and therefore is not a comprehensive collection...

2022.10.06

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #110] What are the species of Juncus rotundifolia? Photo List

The Juncaceae family consists mainly of annual to perennial herbs that grow in wetlands, rarely becoming shrub-like. Stems are cylindrical or biangled, usually unbranched. Leaves are arranged alternately in two rows, linear, flattened, or cylindrical, with a sheathed base, one end opening or forming a complete tube. Flowers are small, nearly identical in shape...

2022.09.30

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[Seed Plant Encyclopedia #104] What are the species of the Bromeliaceae family? Photo list

Bromeliaceae are perennial plants. Many have a structure where the bases of their leaves closely overlap, allowing them to store water. However, some species, such as tank bromeliads and the gray-leaved epiphytic plant Tillandsia, can only collect water through a leaf structure called trichomes...

2022.09.29

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