Botany solution UPPSC pre 2010 Part-2

1. Species Plantarum ("The Species of Plants") was first published in 1753, as a two-volume work by Carl Linnaeus. Its prime importance is perhaps that it is
2. The androecium in Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt. is described. There are three free bithecous stamens each with a single vascular strand.
3. Cucurbitaceae, Coccinia grandis (L.) Voigt., androecium, free bithecous stamens

   We encounter special forms of stamen fusion in the Cucurbitaceae, whose flowers are normally ... Five free stamens are only rarely found here (Fevillea).

4. The size of the cycad leaf is variable; Zamia pygmaea, the smallest cycad, has leaves about 20–30 centimetres long,
5. a plant that grows on ice or snow, esp. various algae and fungi. Etymology: cryo- + -phyte. Browse dictionary definitions near cryophyte ...
6. Family, Characeae. Genus, Chara. Size, Stem length: up to 50cm ... The stonewort anchors itself, not with roots like a plant, but with rhizoids, colourless
7. recommendations to use the ending -phytina for subdivisions