inflorescence

thumb|Aloe hereroensis, showing inflorescence with branched pedunclethumb|Amorphophallus titanum has the world's largest unbranched inflorescence. Photo of the plant in bloom in 2000 at [[Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Miami, Florida, US]]

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An inflorescence is the arrangement of flowers on a plant, which can be either branched or unbranched depending on the species. Understanding inflorescences matters because their structure varies widely across plants—from the branched flower clusters of Aloe hereroensis to the massive single unbranched spike of Amorphophallus titanum, the world's largest of its kind.

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Research

7,583 papers

Evolution of inflorescence branch modifications in cereal crops.ReviewCurrent opinion in plant biology · 2022Koppolu R, Chen S, Schnurbusch TDOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2021.102168
Grass inflorescence architecture and meristem determinacy.ReviewSeminars in cell & developmental biology · 2018Bommert P, Whipple CDOI: 10.1016/j.semcdb.2017.10.004
Hormonal influence on maize inflorescence development and reproduction.ReviewPlant reproduction · 2024Chaudhry A, Chen Z, Gallavotti ADOI: 10.1007/s00497-024-00510-0
Plant Inflorescence Architecture: The Formation, Activity, and Fate of Axillary Meristems.ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2020Zhu Y, Wagner DDOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a034652
Genome-wide transcript analysis of inflorescence development in wheat.Genome · 2019Kim DY, Hong MJ, Seo YWDOI: 10.1139/gen-2018-0200
Hormonal regulation of inflorescence and intercalary meristems in grasses.ReviewCurrent opinion in plant biology · 2023Awale P, McSteen PDOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2023.102451
Architecture of Wheat Inflorescence: Insights from Rice.ReviewTrends in plant science · 2019Gao XQ, Wang N, Wang XL et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2019.06.002
A negative feedback loop between TERMINAL FLOWER1 and LEAFY protects inflorescence indeterminacy.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2026Huang T, Hodgens C, Prakash S et al.DOI: 10.1126/science.adv5429

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Article

17 sections

Contents

General characteristics
Terminal flower
Phyllotaxis
Organization
Simple inflorescences
Indeterminate or racemose
Determinate or cymose
Compound inflorescences
Other
Development and patterning
Development
Genetic basis
Environmental influences
Meristems and inflorescence architecture
References
Bibliography
External links

In botany, an inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a plant's stem that is composed of a main branch or a system of branches. An inflorescence is categorized on the basis of the arrangement of flowers on a main axis (peduncle) and by the timing of its flowering (determinate and indeterminate).