Question

What is inflorescence ? What are the different types of inflorescence?


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Answer 1

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An inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. Morphologically, it is the modified part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed.

Spike - an elongate, unbranched, indeterminate inflorescence with sessile flowers. Spikelet - a small spike, characteristic of grasses and sedges. Raceme - an elongate, unbranched, indeterminate inflorescence with pedicelled flowers. Panicle - a branched raceme.

Answer 2

INFLORESCENCE :-

• It is a mode of arrangement of flowers on the axis of a plant.
• The flowers may be arranged in several different ways in different plants, this manner of arrangement is termed as inflorescence.
• It is composed of main branch of several groups of branches.
• The flowers are formed here.

TYPES OF INFLORESCENCE :-

1. Racemose
2. Cymose