|
A pseudanthium (Greek for "false flower") or flower head is a special type of inflorescence, in which anything from a small cluster to hundreds or sometimes thousands of flowers are grouped together to form a single flower-like structure. Pseudanthia take various forms. The individual flowers of a pseudanthium commonly are called florets.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.calflora.net/botanicalnames/botanicalterms.html )〕 The real flowers (the florets) are generally small and often greatly reduced, but the pseudanthium itself can sometimes be quite large (as in the heads of some varieties of sunflower). Pseudanthia are characteristic of the daisy and sunflower family (Asteraceae), whose flowers are differentiated into ray flowers and disk flowers, unique to this family. The disk flowers in the center of the pseudanthium are actinomorphic and the corolla is fused into a tube. Flowers on the periphery are zygomorphic and the corolla has one large lobe (the so-called "petals" of a daisy are individual ray flowers, for example). Either ray or disk flowers may be absent in some plants: ''Senecio vulgaris'' lacks ray flowers and ''Taraxacum officinale'' lacks disk flowers.〔 The pseudanthium has a whorl of bracts below the flowers, forming an involucre. In all cases, a pseudanthium (inflorescence) is superficially indistinguishable from a flower, but closer inspection of its anatomy will reveal that it is composed of multiple flowers. Thus, the pseudanthium represents an evolutionary convergence of the inflorescence to a reduced reproductive unit that may function in pollination like a single flower, at least in plants that are animal pollinated. ==Related terms== Head This is an equivalent term for flower head and pseudanthium when used in the botanical sense.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/interchange/JM_glossary.html )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://glossary.gardenweb.com/glossary/nph-ind.cgi?scrug=16677&k=head&b=and&r=root&s=both )〕 Capitulum (plural capitula) ''Capitulum'' can be used as an exact synonym for pseudanthium and flower head;〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://botanydictionary.org/capitulum.html )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://glossary.gardenweb.com/glossary/nph-ind.cgi?scrug=16677&k=capitulum&b=and&r=root&s=both )〕 however its use is generally but not always restricted to the Asteraceae family. At least one source defines it as a small flower head. In addition to its botanical use as a term meaning flower head it is also used to mean the top of the sphagnum plant.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url = http://www.anbg.gov.au/bryophyte/ecology-sphagnum.html )〕 Calathid (plural calathids or calathidia) This is a very rarely used term. It was defined in the 1966 book, The genera of flowering plants (Angiospermae), as a specific term for a flower head of a plant in the Asteraceae family.〔 However, on-line botanical glossaries do not define it and Google Scholar does not link to any significant usage of the term in a botanical sense. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pseudanthium」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|