Phylum Anthophyta

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Phylum Anthophyta

• The Flowering Plants
• Often called Angiosperms

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Characteristics of Phylum Anthophyta

• Seed enclosed in an ovary
• Mature ovary is called a fruit
• All have flowers (not all are colorful blossoms
  such as corn tassels and catkins of oak trees

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Two Classes

• Monocotyledoneae
• monocots

• Dicotyledoneae
• dicots

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Monocots

• One cotyledon
• One leaf on embryonic plant
• Parallel venation
• Floral parts in 3s or 6s
• Fibrous roots

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Dicots

• Two cotyledons
• Two leaves on embryonic plant
• Netted leaf venation
• Floral parts in 4s or 5s or multiples of 4 or 5
• Tap root

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Cotyledons
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Stem Differences
Dicot Stem
Monocot Stem
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Dicot
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Monocot