Ontogeny and phylogeny

1. University of Allahabad
Department of botany
(2022-2023)
Topic: Fruit diversity in Poaceae Family
Submitted to: Submitted By:
Dr. Satya Narayan Sheela Verma
Dr. Shweta Shekhar MSc. 2nd Sem

2. Distribution
The family commonly known as grass family. It is
one of the largest among the angiospermic
families. It consist of 620 genera and 6,000
species. The plants represent 3 ecological types
as hydrophyte, xerophyte and mesophyte. In India
it is represented by 850 species.

3. Fruit
• Caryopsis (achene with pericarp completely united adherent with the
seed coat) or rarely nut (dendrocalamus) or berry (Bambusa).
•Caryopsis-
• Caryopsis is a type of indehiscent fruit.
• They are develop from monocarpellary, superior ovary.
• Pericarp of these fruit is fused with the seed coat.
• Caryopsis is present in family Gramineae
• Eg- wheat, rice maize

6. Maize Sorghum Barley
Oats Wheat Rice

7. Dendrocalamus type fruit
• A small genus of large Asian bamboos with long panicles of globular
clusters of flowers succeeded by small fruit with thick hard walls.
Baccifera type fruit-
Baccifera fruit, the ecological significance of
its fruiting. This pear-shaped , flashy bamboo fruit is rich in amino acid
(Lysine) , sugar(sucrose) and phenolic (ferulic acid)

8. References
• A. V. S. S. Sambamurty. ( 2005 ).
- Taxonomy of Angiosperms.
• O. P. Sharma (1993 ). – Plant Taxonomy.
• Singh Pande Jain ( fourth edition).
- A text book of botany ( Angiosperms) .
Diagram – https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants.
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/.com.

9. • Thank you