Semi-Technical Description of a Typical Flowering Plant MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers

Semi-Technical Description of a Typical Flowering Plant

• Various morphological features are used to describe a flowering plant.
• The description should be brief and simple, in scientific language and presented in a proper sequence. 
• The plant is described beginning with its habit, vegetative characters - root, stem, and leaves and then floral characters inflorescence and flowers.
• After describing various parts of the plant, a floral diagram and a floral formula are presented. 
• A floral diagram provides information about the number of parts of a flower, their arrangement and the relationship they have with one another. 
• A floral formula represents the information given in a floral diagram in the form of an equation. Following symbols are used in constructing a floral formula.

A Table showing list of symbols used in the description of angiosperm families.

Signs used in the preparation of floral diagram:

A floral diagram and floral formula: