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Scheme for Description of
Flowers and Inflorescence
Name : English, Latin and Arabic names to be
written as heading
Origin : Name of plant and family
Condition : Dry, fresh, in masses, etc.
Shape :
Size : Length, breadth, diameter, etc.
Colour : As seen in bulk.
Touch : Smooth, etc.
Odour and :
Taste
Kind Inflorescence
Axis : Racemose, cymose; simple, compound, etc,
Bracts and capitulum, spike etc.
Bracteoles : Elongated, straight, shortened, simple or
branched, flattened, conical, solid, hollow,
etc.
: Present or absent; in involucre or separated;
shape, dimensions; colour, etc.
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