The floral formula is a traditional method of efficiently summarising the structure of a flower in text using only letters, numbers and symbols. In a review in Taxon, Gerhard Prenner, Richard Bateman ...

Flowers are composed of elements such as sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils, and the symbolic representation of this composition is called a 'floral formula,' and a schematic diagram showing this ...

Research into the structure and development of flowers and inflorescences has revealed that traditional descriptive methods are often inadequate. Scientists at Kew have therefore suggested revisions ...