small-bristly |
= setulose |
pubescence |
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Finely setose (hispid). |
dodeca… |
= twelve-… |
prefix |
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Indicating presence of or constitution by twelve entities of the type denoted by the term's stem; as in dodecandrous, dodecalocular, dodecastylous. |
bud-scale scar |
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FEATURE |
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A scar on a stem due to abscission of a bud scale. The scar(s) encircle(s) the axis to which the bud was terminal, each single scar having an outline like that of a transverse section through the base of the bud scale that was inserted there. Sets of bud scale scars (one set per bud) usually delimit seasonal stem growth increments in temperate zone taxa. |
rhytidomal |
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insertion |
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Within, upon, or otherwise directly associated with the bark. |
sword-shaped 2 |
= ensiform |
solid shape |
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Elongate and moderately slender, strongly compressed, the opposite faces plane, parallel, broadest at the base and gradually attenuate to a short, more strongly attenuate, acute apex; like a broadsword blade. |
hermaphroditic |
= bisexual |
reproduction |
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Having functional reproductive structures of both sexes. See also perfect. |
anther |
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STRUCTURE |
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The fertile, loculate, pollen-bearing portion of a stamen, containing one, two, or four thecae (pollen sacs), when that portion is differentiated from and borne at the summit of a narrower supporting stalk (filament), or when such differentiation is deemed to have occurred in the evolutionary past with subsequent reduction of the filament (the anther then sessile and constituting the entirety of the stamen). |
verrucose |
= tuberculate, tuberculose, warty |
relief |
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Covered with small, relatively broad, irregularly shaped, obtuse protrusions. |
gland |
> nectary |
STRUCTURE |
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An anatomically distinct multicellular structure that produces and exudes a particular substance, or resembles those that do. |
peripheral |
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insertion |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the outer surfaces or regions of a three-dimensional structure. Although use of this term in two-dimensional contexts is technically correct, traditionally the term marginal is preferred in such cases. |
crateriform |
= goblet-shaped |
solid shape |
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Having a distal, concave, relatively thin-walled, basically hemispherical portion surmounting a much narrower, transversely round, pedestal-like base. |
ceraceous 1 |
= cereous, waxen, waxy; > caesious, glaucescent, glaucous, pruinose |
coating |
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Covered with wax or a wax-like substance. |
elater 1 |
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STRUCTURE |
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An elongate cell with a helical, hygroscopic thickening in its wall, contained within a sporangium, expanding and contracting with changes in humidity and aiding dispersal of the spores; esp. in Hepaticae. |
pseudolamina pl. pseudolaminae |
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STRUCTURE |
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The expanded part of a phyllode (phyllodium), resembling a blade but evolutionarily derived from the petiole. |
basicaulous |
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position |
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At or very near the stem base. |
kneed |
= geniculate |
solid shape |
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Elongate, abruptly bent, somewhat thicker at the angle, and appearing as though articulate like a leg at the knee. |
massula pl. massulae |
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STRUCTURE |
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A body of coherent pollen grains, dispersed as a unit; esp. in Asclepiadaceae, Orchidaceae. |
subpetiolar |
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insertion |
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Just below the point of petiole insertion. |
shining |
= glossy, laevigate, lustrous, polished, shiny |
reflectance |
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Uniformly reflecting a high proportion of incident light at all angles. |
dimidiate |
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solid shape |
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Halved, figuratively; bilaterally asymmetric, nearly or wholly lacking one side as implicitly compared with some corresponding bilaterally symmetric structure, real or imagined. |
planoconcave |
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solid shape |
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Relatively thin with opposite broad faces, one plane and one concave. |
bossed |
= umbonate |
solid shape |
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Having an umbo. |
relief |
= sculpture |
CHARACTER |
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General topographic aspect of a surface. Overlaps conceptually with solid shape. |
suffused |
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coloration |
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Having two or more hues, shades, and/or intensities intermingled, the contrasting components distinguishable only submacroscopically. |
scabrellous |
= scabrellate, scabridulous |
relief |
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Minutely scabrous (rough, scabrate, scabrid, scabridous). See also spiculate, which is not clearly distinct in its application. |