A useful drug to combat breast and lung cancer has been made from the leaves of cycads.

The cloves of garlic could be called bulbils, while Egyptian onions, with small bulbs on their flowering stalks, would be called bulblets.

Ferns have a separate and independent small haploid plant in their life cycles

Priority is an important aspect of using common names.

A sick plant sometimes sends up new shoots from below ground level. These shoots are called watersprouts.

Tepals are the name for petals of a flower when they are fused together.

The ICN is the definitive rule book for the use of common names.

The fern Platycerium that you learned in the lab is an example of a plant that exhibits frond dimorphism.

Louis the 14th of France was well known for growing an enormous quantity of this type of plant at his gardens at the Versailles palace:

The person who names a taxon is called the author or authority, and there are separate authors for a genus, species and any infraspecific category. But the authority most often cited is the species authority.