Monocot genus: alternatives and connections

A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists.

A genus of ericaceous flowering plants of northern climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock surrounded by w…

The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.

A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spik…

any of various flowering plants of the genus Iberis cultivated for their showy clusters of white to red or purple flowers; native to M…

A simple pistil or single-celled ovary or seed vessel, or one of the parts of a compound pistil, ovary, or seed vessel. See Illust of…

A one-celled, dry, indehiscent fruit, with a thin membranous pericarp, adhering closely to the seed, so that fruit and seed are incorp…

A genus of hardy perennial flowering plants, of the order Scrophulariaceae, natives of North America; -- called also snakehead, turtle…

A Linnaean genus of free-flowering composite plants, mostly from South Africa. Several species are cultivated for ornament.

A genus of flowering plants, of many species, mostly climbers, having feathery styles, which greatly enlarge in the fruit; -- called a…

embryonic leaf in seed-bearing plants

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a cotyledon.