http://www.biology.uwaterloo.ca/undergraduate/courses/biol325/

• leaf variation: alternate, opposite, whorled, basal

primitive (non-derived) stuff

• varying numbers of parts
• gradient rather than binary differentiation
• fused parts is more advanced
• bilateral symmetry is more advanced
• fewer stamens is more advanced (generally, but some advanced have many stamens as pollinator fodder)
• 3-merous is primitive

Nymphaea

• mix of primitive and derived
• "petals" actually staminoids

flower

• pedicel
  • bract
• perianth
  • tepals or (sepals making a calyx and petals making a corolla)
• if no androecium then carpellate, no gynoecium then staminate
• androecium
  • stamens
    • filament
    • anther holds pollen sacs
    • filament and anthers joined with connective
• gynoecium
• hypanthium....
  • anhypanthium
• nectaries

lab 1

nymphaeceae/nymphaea, aristolochiaceae/asarum, magnoliaceae/magolia, calycanthaceae/calycanthus, ranunculaceae/ranunculus

• basal paleoherbs
  • Nymphaea
• Magnoliids
  • Magnolia
  • Calycanthus
• basal tricolpate eudicots
  • Ranunculus