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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.

The second word in a binomial is the:

Another term for leaflike is:

Venation can be used to distinguish some groups of cycads from one another.