Abstract：Abstract: Inflorescences, the branching structures or systems that bear flowers, are usually important fea-tures of angiosperm families and closely related with pollination. Troubles in the process of inflorescence teaching may partially come from the inflorescence definitions and classification in various botany textbooks. This paper redefined some inflorescences, such as determined and indetermined inflorescences, corymb and verticillaster, and cleared up some confusion in classification of umbel, catkin, capitulum and hypanthodium. Secondly, the paper suggests that both a cluster of flowers and a single flower degenerated from an inflores-cence should be regarded as types of inflorescence. Finally, a new classification of inflorescence is proposed, in which some new groups are added.
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黎维平. 一些花序的新定义和一个新的花序分类系统 ——植物学教材质疑(六)[J]. 生命科学研究, 2022, 26(1): 88-94. LI Wei-ping. Redefinition of Some Inflorescence Types and a Proposal for a New Classification System of Inflorescence Questioning Botany Textbooks (VI). Life Science Research, 2022, 26(1): 88-94.
