disk flower
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0025332
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- exact: disc floret
- exact: disk floret
- exact: flor del disco (Spanish)
- exact: 中心花 (Japanese)
- Definition
- A small flower (PO:0009046) in the center of a head-type (capitulum) inflorescence (PO:0009049). [source: ISBN:9781842464229]
- Comment
- Found in the Asteraceae. May be actinomorphic or bilabiate, often bisexual. Usually surrounded by and different in form from ray flowers (PO:0025331).
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