Agamandrous Inflorescence Sex | Inflorescence with neuter flowers inside or above and staminate outside or below. (an example of the sexual condition of one inflorescence type, the head, as in composites: agamandrocephalous) |  |
Agamogynous Inflorescence Sex | Inflorescence with neuter flowers inside or above and pistillate outside or below. (an example of the sexual condition of one inflorescence type, the head, as in composites: agamogynecephalous) |  |
Agamohermaphroditic Inflorescence Sex | Inflorescence with neuter flowers inside or above and hermaphroditic outside or below. (an example of the sexual condition of one inflorescence type, the head, as in composites: agamohermaphrodicephalous) |  |
Ament or Catkin Inflorescence | A unisexual spike or elongate axis with simple dichasia that falls as a unit after flowering or fruiting. |  |
Andragamous Inflorescence Sex | Inflorescence with staminate flowers inside or above and neuter flowers outside or below. (an example of the sexual condition of one inflorescence type, the head, as in composites: andragamocephalous) |  |
Androgynecandrous Inflorescence Sex | Inflorescence with staminate flowers above and below pistillate, as in the spikes of some species of Carex. |  |
Androgynous Inflorescence Sex | Inflorescence with staminate flowers inside or above and pistillate outside or below. (an example of the sexual condition of one inflorescence type, the head, as in composites: androgynecephalous) |  |
Androhermaphroditic Inflorescence Sex | Inflorescence with staminate flowers inside or above and hermaphroditic outside or below. (an example of the sexual condition of one inflorescence type, the head, as in composites: androhermaphrodicephalous) |  |
Capitulum or Head Inflorescence | A determinate (central flower matures first with the arrest of the elongation of the central axis) or indeterminate (lateral or lower flowers mature first without the arrest of the elongation of the central axis) crowded group of sessile or subsessile flowers on a compound receptacle or torus. |  |
Cincinnus Inflorescence | A tight, modified helicoid cyme in which pedicels are short on the developed side. |  |
Compound Corymb Inflorescence | A branched corymb. |  |
Compound Cyme Inflorescence | A branched cyme. |  |
Compound Umbel Inflorescence | An umbel with primary rays or peduncles arising at a common point with a secondary umbel arising from the tip of the primary rays; a branched umbel. |  |
Corymb Inflorescence | A flat-topped or convex indeterminate cluster of flowers. |  |
Cyathium Inflorescence | A pseudanthium subtended by an involucre, frequently with petaloid glands, as in Euphorbia. | |
Cymule Inflorescence | A simple, small dichasium. | |
Determinate inflorescences | Have the central flower maturing first with the arrest of the elongation of the central axis. | |
Glomerule Inflorescence | An indeterminate dense cluster of sessile or subsessile flowers. |  |
Gynagamous Inflorescence Sex | Inflorescence with pistillate flowers inside or above and neuter flowers outside or below. (an example of the sexual condition of one inflorescence type, the head, as in composites: gynagamocephalous) |  |
Gynecandrous Inflorescence Sex | Inflorescence with pistillate flowers inside or above and staminate outside or below, as in spikes of some species of Carex. |  |
Gynehermaphroditic Inflorescence Sex | Inflorescence with pistillate flowers inside or above and hermaphroditic outside or below. (an example of the sexual condition of one inflorescence type, the head, as in composites: gynehermaphrodicephalous) |  |
Helicoid Cyme or Bostryx Inflorescence | A determinate inflorescence in which the branches develop on one side only, appearing simple. |  |
Hermaphrodagamous Inflorescence Sex | Inflorescence with hermaphroditic flowers inside or above and neuter outside or below. (an example of the sexual condition of one inflorescence type, the head, as in composites: hermaphrodagamocephalous) |  |
Hermaphrodandrous Inflorescence Sex | Inflorescence with hermaphroditic flowers inside or above and staminate outside or below. (an example of the sexual condition of one inflorescence type, the head, as in composites: hermaphrodandrocephalous) |  |
Hermaphrodigynous Inflorescence Sex | Inflorescence with hermaphroditic flowers inside or above and pistillate outside or below. (an example of the sexual condition of one inflorescence type, the head, as in composites: hermaphrodigynecephalous) |  |
Hypanthodium Inflorescence | An inflorescence with flowers on wall of a concave capitulum, as in Ficus. |  |
Indeterminate inflorescences | Have the lateral or lower flowers maturing first without the arrest of the elongation of the central axis. | |
Inflorescence | The flowering part of a plant; the arrangement of flowers on an axis; a flower cluster. |  |
Inflorescence Rachilla | Central axis of a grass or sedge spikelet. | |
Inflorescence Rachis | Major axis within an inflorescence. | |
Inflorescence Ray | Secondary axis in inflorescence. | |
Inflorescence Scape | Naked peduncle. |  |
Inflorescence Sex | Arrangement of flowers by sexual condition within an inflorescence; or total diversity of flower sexual conditions within an inflorescence. If plant sex is staminate or pistillate or hermaphroditic or neuter, then inflorescence sex would be respectively the same. | |
Inflorescence Type | Inflorescence types are essentially secondary arrangements. The primary arrangement (alternate, opposite, or whorled) of the individual flowers should be indicated; and the tertiary arrangement of sessile-flowered inflorencences should be noted; e.g., spikelets racemose or heads umbellate. Determinate inflorescences have the central flower maturing first with the arrest of the elongation of the central axis; indeterminate inflorescences have the lateral or lower flowers maturing first without the arrest of the elongation of the central axis. | |
Monochasium Inflorescence | A cymose inflorescence with one main axis. | |
Panicle Inflorescence | Branched inflorescence with pedicelled flowers. |  |
Pleiochasium Inflorescence | Compound dichasium in which each cymule has three lateral branches. | |
Pseudanthium Inflorescence | Several flowers simulating a simple flower but composed of more than a single axis with subsidiary flowers. | |
Raceme Inflorescence | Unbranched, indeterminate inflorescence with pedicelled flowers. |  |
Scapose Inflorescence | With a solitary flower on a leafless peduncle or scape, usually arising from a basal rosette. | |
Scorpioid Cyme or Rhipidium Inflorescence | A zigzag determinate inflorescence with branches developed on opposite sides of the rachis alternately. |  |
Secund Inflorescence | One-sided arrangement. |  |
Simple Cyme or Dichasium Inflorescence | A determinate, dichotomous inflorescence with the pedicels of equal length. | |
Spadix Inflorescence | Unbranched, indeterminate inflorescence with flowers embedded in the rachis. |  |
Spike Inflorescence | Unbranched, indeterminate, elongate inflorescence with sessile flowers. |  |
Spikelet or Locusta Inflorescence | A small spike; the basic inflorescence unit in grasses and sedges. |  |
Thyrse Inflorescence | A many-flowered inflorencence with an indeterminate central axis and with many opposite lateral dichasia. |  |
Umbel Inflorescence | A determinate or indeterminate flat-topped or convex inflorescence with the pedicels arising at a common point. | |
Umbellet Inflorescence | The secondary umbel in a compound umbel. | |
Verticillaster Inflorescence | Whorled dichasia at the nodes of an elongate rachis. |  |