flower meristem
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0000229
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- related: floral apical meristem
- narrow: ear floret meristem
- narrow: floret meristem
- narrow: Poaceae floret meristem
- narrow: tassel floret meristem
- alt_id: PO:0006329
- alt_id: PO:0006373
- alt_id: PO:0006374
- alt_id: PO:0025091
- exact: 花芽分裂組織 (Japanese)
- exact: floral meristem
- exact: mersitema floral (Spanish)
- Definition
- A portion of reproductive shoot apical meristem tissue (PO:0008028) that gives rise to the floral organs (PO:0025395). [source: GR:Pankaj_Jaiswal, POC:curators]
- Comment
- In Zea mays and other grasses, the floret meristem is part of a spikelet and develops into a specific type of floret. If you are annotating to this structure for Zea mays or other grasses, please also add an annotation to the spikelet type that the meristem is part of. Choose the most specific term possible from: spikelet (PO:0009051), ear spikelet (PO:0006320), ear pedicellate spikelet (PO:0006348), ear sessile spikelet (PO:0006349), tassel spikelet (PO:0006309), tassel pedicellate spikelet (PO:0006312), tassel sessile spikelet (PO:0006311).
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