| For example, thale cress and rice are model species for dicots and monocots, respectively. |
| A wide range of monocots produce bulbs of modified leaves which store food over the winter. |
| Ray's plant classification system was the first to divide flowering plants into monocots and dicots. |
| In monocots, calcium oxalate is most often laid down and usually as bundles of needle-shaped crystals known as raphides. |
| However, like palms and some members of the Iridales, they have plicate leaves, and these leaf forms are among the earliest known fossil monocots. |
| For herbaceous dicots and small woody shrubs we have used the same phenology as that for monocots. |
