What's the difference between compositae and cypsela?
Compositae
Definition:
(n. pl.) A large family of dicotyledonous plants, having their flowers arranged in dense heads of many small florets and their anthers united in a tube. The daisy, dandelion, and asters, are examples.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sixteen taxa of the genus Parthenium from North and South America and 20 sesquiterpene lactones derived from plants of the Compositae family were used for patch testing six volunteers who were known to be contact sensitive to plants and lactones of this family.
(2) Vicoa Indica, a plant belonging to the family Compositae is used by Adivasies (tribal population) in Bihar state of India to produce sterility.
(3) Clinical features, botany, phytochemistry, patch testing and ecology of Compositae and Frullania (liverwort) allergic contact phytodermatitis are discussed.
(4) The effects of an indigenous drug, Tridax procumbens L. (Compositae), on developing granulation tissue in rats were studied.
(5) (Oleaceae), Arctium lappa L. (Compositae) and Centipeda minima (L.) A. BRAUN et ASCHERS (Compositae) showed significant activities.
(6) The aromatic plants used were taken from the Labiatae family (Thymus vulgaris, Ocimum gratissimum), the Myrtaceae family (Eugenia caryophyllata, Melaleuca viridiflora) and the Compositae (Helichrysum lavanduloides, H. bracteiferum, H. gymnocephalum, Psiadia altissima).
(7) The same compounds are also found in the essential oils of various plants, of which the occurrence of the cycloheptadiene-pheromone ectocarpene in Senecio isatideus (Compositae) is noteworthy.
(8) As a practical consequence, patients suffering from allergic contact dermatitis due to Compositae species are strictly requested to avoid contact with the offending species and all related species to prevent recurrences of their skin lesions.
(9) The occurrence of annulate lamellae (AL) in differentiating phloem of Sonchus oleraceus (Compositae) singly infected with sowthistle yellow vein virus (SYVV) and doubly infected with a combination of SYVV and beet yellow stunt virus is documented by electron microscopy.
(10) 48 patients with allergic contact dermatitis from Frullania were patch tested with a lichen mix, compositae and lichen acids.
(11) As a complementary study to a previous work (14) in which we examined 43 cases of contact dermatitis to plants, we have taken a closer look at the provocative cases which made up 76% of that study - Allium (garlic) (11 cases), Primula (8), Frullania (8) and Compositae (6).
(12) Baccharis triptera Mart, is a widespread Compositae used in Brazilian folk medicine to treat gastrointestinal disturbances, rheumatic disease, mild fever, diabetes and as an anti-helminthic.
(13) 60 patients (45 male and 15 female) with suspected airborne contact dermatitis from Compositae (Asteraceae) plants and 20 age-matched controls (15 male and 5 female) were investigated.
(14) The authors consider that the pollen of Compositae can have a certain allergogenic importance in August.
(15) Eighty percent of Artemisia sensitive pollinic patients were also sensitive to the pollen of other plants from the family of compositae.
(16) The cytosolic phosphatidate phosphatase of safflower seeds was not transferred to the microsomal membranes prepared from soybean, a plant species of Leguminosae, and from rapeseed, a species of Cruciferae, but was transferred to that from sunflower, which belongs to the same family as safflower, Compositae.
(17) The weeds involved were all of the Compositae family and contain sesquiterpene lactones with one common antigenic determinant.
(18) Skin testing showed positive reactions to arnica and, among various other plants of the Compositae, also to Tagetes sp.
(19) In honey allergics primary sensitization may be due either to the honey itself, to airborne compositae pollen or even to cross-reacting bee venom components.
(20) The duration of phases of the cell cycle are measured in five species and one hybrid of the genus Crepis (Compositae), after pulse labeling with tritiated thymidine.
Cypsela
Definition:
(n.) A one-seeded, one-celled, indehiscent fruit; an achene with the calyx tube adherent.