Species of flowering plants are most reliably identified by their flowers, the sexually reproductive organs. A flower is similar to a vegetative short shoot (lacking appreciable internodes) that bears four kinds of laterally attached organs in successive whorls: sepals, petals, stamens, and carpels
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