Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants - Online edition
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FL 5 solitary flower
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FL 6 raceme Flowers arranged on a single axis, each flower stalked.
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FL 7 spike Flowers arranged on a single axis, individual flowers lacking stalks.
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FL 8 corymb Flowers arranged so that they are on the same level more or less in the same plane.
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FL 9 umbel Flowers arising from one point at the apex of a stalk, each flower on its own stalk. (Two and three flowered umbels are included in this category.)
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FL10 fascicle Flowers arising from one point on a twig or branch, each flower with or without a stalk.
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FL11 cyme Flowers produced so that a flower terminates each branch of the inflorescence and additional flowers can only be produced by the production of floral branches below the terminal flower.
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FL12 panicle Flowers produced in much branched complex structures resembling the branching pattern of a tree. It is important to realize that panicles can incorporate other basic inflorescence patterns such as umbels and cymes.
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FL13 head Flowers produced in definite structures where the flowers (often without stalks) are densely packed in various ways without any obvious branching pattern.
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FL14 cone
This is the arrangement in which the flowers are borne on the plant.
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