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- noun Plural form of
monocot . - noun botany A clade within the
angiosperms in theAPG systems.
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Examples
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Grasses are the most successful monocots (seed-bearing plants with single seed leaves), and the most beneficial plants for humankind, providing highly nutritional grains and livestock forage, and preventing soil erosion.
Grasses 2009
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Grasses are highly specialized monocots distinguished by certain characteristics of the stems, leaves, and inflorescences.
Grasses 2009
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Most of the 630 species of geophytes are petaloid monocots in the families Hyacinthaceae (Lachenalia, Ornithogalum), Iridaceae (Babiana, Lapeirousia, Moraea, Romulea), Amaryllidaceae (Brunsvigia, Hessea, Strumaria) and Asphodelaceae (Bulbine, Trachyandra).
Succulent Karoo 2008
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The low stature of trees in this community and open understory with an abundance of broad-leaved monocots and grasses suggest severe past impacts from burning and clearance.
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There are many cases where a single pollinator is responsible for pollinating many species of plants, for example long-tongued flies (Tabanidae and Nemestrinidae) are the exclusive pollinators of many genera of petaloid monocots as well as Pelargonium and Erica; a butterfly is the exclusive pollinator of a phylogenetically disparate group of red-flowered and autumn-flowering species; hopliine (monkey) beetle pollination has evolved convergently in many genera, etc.
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Potentilla, Pedicularis, Primula, Lancea, Gentiana, and monocots such as Allium are some of the more abundant forbs.
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A strong component of monocots in the Heliconiaceae, Zingiberaceae, and Marantaceae dominate parts of the understory, along with palms and epiphytes.
Iquitos varzea 2008
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Other distinctive features in comparison with other Mediterranean-climate floras include the large number of geophytes or bulblike plants (1,552 spp.), especially among the petaloid monocots, and the relative paucity of annuals (6.8 percent of the flora) and trees (2.4 percent).
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These continuous layers of phloem and cambial tissue make grafting and layering of dicots possible (sections 7.6 and 7.7), whereas with monocots these techniques are not possible.
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In monocots the phloem and xylem tissues are grouped together in vascular bundles running vertically through the plant.
qroqqa commented on the word monocots
APG II clade of the flowering plants commonly known as monocotyledons. It contains a major clade commelinids as well as the orders Asparagales, Alismatales, Dioscoreales, Liliales, and Pandanales.
July 4, 2008