Trust me, look at the branching of a multiflowered stalk on an African Terminal flowerbuds of the cyme's node's cymes, followed by the terminalįlowerbuds of the cyme's node's cyme's node, ad not quite infinitum. On a cyme the terminal flowerbud develops first, followed by the The word "recursively" above), but really isn't.Īfter some number of branchings, the stem terminates in a singleįlowerbud, and there the circularity ("recursion") stops. This definition sounds circular (and that is what is meant by
On a raceme the lowest pedicels and their associated flowers developįirst, followed by the next lowest, and so on.Ī raceme tends to peter out in one or more buds which don't fully develop.Ī cyme is a stem terminating in a flowerbud, but which might have,īelow the flowerbud, a node from which one or two cymes develop. In English, here is what those diagrams mean:Ī raceme is a stem from which one or more pedicels develop at a node,Īnd which continues to another node, from which one or more pedicelsĭevelop, and which continues to another node, from which one or more Rest of you don't worry if you didn't know what that meant): Or programming, raceme and cyme can be defined recursively as follows (the Cyme Inflorescence upon which the topmost or outermost flower opens firstįor those of you with a little background in computer science or mathematics gladiolus, foxglove, smithiantha, Diastema racemiferum). Raceme Inflorescence upon which the bottom flowers open first Peduncle Stalk terminating in one or more pedicels. Pedicel Stalk terminating in a single flower. Location of inflorescences in Sinningiaĭefinitions First, some definitions: Inflorescence Group of flowers ultimately originating from a single stalk or axil.
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