🌽 Intermediate Practical Manual - Zea mays (Corn)

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🌽 Zea mays (Corn)

Division : Spermatophyta
Class : Monocotyledonae
Family : Poaceae
Genus : Zea

🔹 Specimen Characters

  1. Plant body is differentiated into roots, stem, and leaves.

  2. Root system is fibrous.

  3. Leaves are simple, broad, with parallel venation.

  4. Flowers are small, trimerous, with reduced perianth lobes.

  5. Silky styles are present.

  6. Ovules are situated inside the carpels.

  7. Seed has one cotyledon. Fruit is a cob with seeds arranged in rows.

👉 By the above characters, the given specimen is identified as Zea mays (Corn) plant.

✅ Diagram (from the page shows):

  • Inflorescence with male flowers

  • Stem with leaves

  • Cob with silky styles

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