Zea (corn), Oryza (rice), and Triticum (wheat) all belong to which family:

In this scientific name, the highlighted portion represents:

Rhizomes and stolons are not completely different from one another, because in various plants their features can overlap.  The features generally associated with a stolon, though, are its growth underground, use as a perennating structure, and serving as the main plant body.

In the “scala naturae” even things like minerals, metals, men, and kings were included.

A berry is a fleshy indehiscent fruit type. An example of a berry is a banana or a tomato.

You can often infer from an infructescence what the structure of an inflorescence was.

Scorpioid and helicoid cymes are both determinate inflorescences but differ in how many rows of flowers can be seen.

Linnaeus didn’t invent binomial names, but he was the first one to use them consistently.

Stems of cycads can be found above ground but not below ground.

The second word in a binomial is the: