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Number of petals, tepals, or perianth segments (or if fused, number of lobes)

For this feature, count the number of segments or lobes that look like petals or are most petaloidpetaloid:
(adj) resembling a petal in appearance
. It is not necessary to determine the identity of the floral whorls, because in some flowers, this determination is difficult: sepals may look like petals; two whorls that are actually calyxcalyx:
(n) the outer whorl of the perianth; all the sepals of a flower
and corollacorolla:
(n) the inner whorl(s) of the perianth; all the petals of a flower
may not be obviously so; or two whorls may look like calyxcalyx:
(n) the outer whorl of the perianth; all the sepals of a flower
and corollacorolla:
(n) the inner whorl(s) of the perianth; all the petals of a flower
but are not.

two  
two
three  
three
four  
four
five  
five
 
six  
six
more than six  
more than six
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