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Rhizomes and stolons are not completely different from one another, because in various plants their features can overlap.  The features generally associated with a stolon, though, are its growth underground, use as a perennating structure, and serving as the main plant body.

The part of Vanilla orchid that is the part used for its delicious flavor is:

Choose the pair of terms that corresponds, respectively, to epigynous and hypogynous

In the “scala naturae” even things like minerals, metals, men, and kings were included.

A peltate leaf blade doesn’t have to be round, but its petiole must connect with the blade at a point in from the blade’s edge.

You can often infer from an infructescence what the structure of an inflorescence was.

Scorpioid and helicoid cymes are both determinate inflorescences but differ in how many rows of flowers can be seen.

The Lamiaceae, or mint family, often has a special inflorescence with tiered whorls of flowers.  This inflorescence is called:

Linnaeus didn’t invent binomial names, but he was the first one to use them consistently.

Stems of cycads can be found above ground but not below ground.