Spot number Spot character Present?
0
Succulent
1
Climbing
2
Trees
3
Parasitic
4
Myco-heterotrophic ("saprophytic")
5
Without chlorophyll
6
Aquatic
8
Reproducing asexually
9
Bearing tendrils
10
Bearing distinctly bent hooks
11
Bearing hardened petioles
12
Moss-like
13
Epiphytic
14
Lithophytic
15
With true bulbs
16
Annuals
17
Biennials
18
Lianes
19
Perennials
20
Shrub over 2 m
21
Shrub under 2 m
22
Terrestrial (used in the Pteridophyta and Orchidaceae only)
23
Cushion plants
24
Plant dioecious
25
Plant monoecious
26
Plant a mangrove
100
Trunk with bark peeling off in papery pieces
101
Trunk with large knob-like projections (which may bear thorns)
102
Trunk or branches with corky bark
103
Stem winged
104
Stem square
105
Stem absent or very short, with a basal rosette, the flowers borne on peduncles
106
Stem with swollen nodes
107
Branching Terminalia-like
108
Branchlets strongly lenticellate
109
Prickles or spines on trunk or stems
110
Forked prickles or spines on trunk, stems
111
Trunk or branches bearing flowers (cauliflory)
200
White sap
201
Yellow sap
202
Orange-brown sap
203
Sap of other colours
300
Foetid
301
Lemon-scented
302
Aromatic? E.g. labiatae
400
Stellate or dendritic hairs
401
Medifixed hairs
402
T-shaped hairs
403
Y-shaped (or forked) hairs
404
Stinging (urticating) hairs
405
Hooked hairs
406
Hairs with bulbous bases
407
Farinose, mealy or covered in a powder (which may be brightly coloured)
408
Bearing scales
500
Stipules intrapetiolar
501
Stipules falcate
502
Stipules pinnate
503
Stipules interpetiolar
504
Stipules (or pseudostipules) present in families generally without stipules
505
Stipules present
506
Stipules absent
507
Stipules auriculate, amplexicaul or semi-amplexicaul
508
Stipules fimbriate or laciniate
509
Stipules bifid or with 2 lobes
510
Stipules conspicuous
600
Petiole channelled above
601
Petiole (markedly) swollen at apex
602
Petiole (markedly) swollen at base
603
Petiole wrinkled
604
Petiole and/or rhachis winged
605
Petiole and/or rhachis bearing glands
700
Leaves reduced to scales or 0
701
Leaves whorled
702
Leaves both alternate and whorled or opposite on same plant
703
Leaves alternate in families with generally opposite leaves
704
Leaves opposite in families with generally alternate leaves
705
Leaves anisophyllous
706
Leaves peltate
707
Leaves both simple and compound on the same plant
708
Leaves 3-foliolate
709
Leaves imparipinnate with more than 3 leaflets
710
Leaves paripinnate with 2 leaflets only
711
Leaves paripinnate with more than 2 leaflets
712
Leaves digitately compound with more than 3 leaflets
713
Leaves palmately lobed
714
Leaves pedate
715
Leaves pinnatifid
716
Leaves flabellate
717
Leaves 2(-3 or more) pinnate
718
Leaves simple (or 1-foliolate) in predominantly compound families or genera
719
Leaves with translucent gland dots (visible when held up to light)
720
Leaves with translucent streaks or lines (visible when held up to light)
721
Leaves bearing spines or prickles
722
Leaves with domatia
723
Leaves with markedly rough surfaces
724
Leaves (or leaflets) consistently emarginate (i.e. excluding plants with rarely emarginate leaves)
725
Leaves sensitive
726
Leaves ericoid
727
Leaves with midrib raised above and beneath
728
Leaves bullate
729
Leaves plicate
730
Leaves turning black on drying
731
Young leaves flushing red/ reddish-brown
732
Leaves producing strong red/yellow autumn coloration
733
Leaves with cystoliths
734
Leaves (or leaflets in compound leaves) 3(-5)-veined from the base
735
Leaves with a submarginal vein
736
Leaves with parallel lateral veins
737
Leaves dimorphic
738
Leaf base sagittate
739
Leaves opposite
740
Leaves alternate
741
Leaves simple
742
Leaves basal
743
Leaves clustered at branch ends or on short shoots
744
Leaves amplexicaul
745
Leaves 2 (-3 or more) pinnatifid
746
Leaves with entire margin
747
Leaf base cordate
748
Leaves with auricles
749
Leaves with black dots
750
Leaves (or leaflets in compound leaves) with toothed margin
751
Leaves markedly discolorous
752
Leaves with veins markedly impressed above
753
Leaf with (a few) special glands on the lamina
754
Leaves with a fissure on the underside of the lamina
755
Leaves bearing numerous (non-translucent) glands
756
Leaf base asymmetric
800
Inflorescence leaf-opposed
801
Inflorescence supra-axillary
802
Inflorescence epiphyllous
803
Inflorescence an umbel or pseudumbel
804
Inflorescence a cone
805
Inflorescence a catkin
806
Inflorescence partly or wholly enclosed within an involucre
900
Dicotyledons with parts in threes
901
Calyx accrescent
902
Calyx with an epicalyx
903
Calyx (or phyllaries in Asteraceae) spiny
904
Corolla / petals fimbriate/2-fid
905
Corolla / petals with appendages
906
Corolla / petals with a spur
907
Sepals with a spur
908
Corolla resupinate
909
Flowers appearing before the leaves
910
Staminal tube present
911
Ovary inferior or semi-inferior
912
Flowers bicoloured
913
Perianth absent
914
Calyx winged
915
Calyx circumscissile
916
Ovary superior
917
Calyx with hooked hairs or bristles
918
Corolla hairy
919
Calyx spathaceous
1000
Fruits winged
1001
Fruit prickly or spiny
1002
Fruit with hooks or hooked bristles
1003
Ripe fruit blue
1004
Ripe fruit red
1005
Ripe fruit white
1006
Ripe fruit yellow
1007
Ripe fruit black
1008
Fruit compound
1009
Fruit like a string of beads
1010
Fruit like acorns
1011
Fruit markedly ribbed
1012
Fruit with a 3-locular capsule
1013
Fruit inflated
1014
Fruit with horny or wing-like protuberances
1015
Fruit pendulous
1016
Fruit circumscissile, opening with a lid
1017
Fruits beaked
1018
Fruit lobed
1019
Fruit a capsule
1020
Fruit a berry
1021
Fruit covered in warts
1100
Seeds winged
1101
Seeds with an aril or aril-like structure
1102
Seeds with long hairs
1103
Seeds "red and black"
1104
Seeds with floss (long cottony hairs)
1200
Forest grasses
1201
Grasses with broad leaves
