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spadicate |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Generally spicate but with the flowers embedded in a thick, fleshy axis, the whole subtended and usually partially or wholly enveloped by a large bract (spathe). |
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catkinate |
= amentate |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more catkins. |
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ribbed 1 |
= costate |
architecture |
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Having one or more ribs (costae). |
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colpate |
= fossulate, furrowed, grooved, sulcate, valleculate |
architecture |
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Having one or more elongate, relatively narrow and shallow depressions (colpi). |
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…digitate |
= …palmate |
architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Compound with the number of orders of leaflets indicated by the prefix, each order digitate; as in tridigitate. |
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trabeculate |
< septate |
architecture |
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Having one or more trabeculae. |
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anisostemonous |
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architecture |
flower, androecium |
Having stamens unequal in size and/or shape. |
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…palmate |
= …digitate |
architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Compound with the number of orders of leaflets indicated by the prefix, each order palmate; as in bipalmate. |
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inflorescence 1 |
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architecture |
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Mode or progressive pattern of bearing flowers; most appropriately described using adjectival terms. |
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sulcate |
= colpate, fossulate, furrowed, grooved, valleculate |
architecture |
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Having one or more elongate, relatively narrow and shallow depressions (sulci). |
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crassate |
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architecture |
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Relatively thick for the type of structure or in the taxonomic context. |
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single-leafleted |
= one-leafleted, unifoliolate |
architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Structurally compound but with only one leaflet, whose nature (as a leaflet, not a leaf) is revealed by an evident articulation with the petiole, this condition presumably derived by evolutionary reduction from a multifoliolate precursor. |
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laminate |
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architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Having an expanded, more or less planate, distal portion (lamina or blade). |
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fasciculate 1 |
= bundled (not recommended), fascicled |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more fascicles. |
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wingless 2 |
= exalate |
architecture |
pollen grain |
Lacking lateral lobes or enations that resemble sacs or somewhat inflated wings. |
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hypostom(at)ic |
= hypostomatous |
architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Having stomata on only the abaxial surface. |
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twisted |
= contorted |
architecture |
axis |
Having a helical pattern of relief and/or coloration along its length. |
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ramose |
= branched, ramiform, ramous |
architecture |
axis, laminar vein |
Dividing into or bearing branches. |
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excurrent |
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architecture |
axis, laminar vein |
Branching laterally such that the initial axis retains its prominence over the length of the structure, the succesive orders of branches relatively smaller. See also deliquescent. |
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barbellate |
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architecture |
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Bearing one or more barbels. |
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veined |
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architecture |
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Having one or more orders of evident vasculature. |
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spathaceous 1 |
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architecture |
plant, inflorescence |
Bearing a spathe or spathes. |
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achlamydeous |
= naked |
architecture |
flower |
Lacking a perianth. |
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stemless |
= acaulous |
architecture |
plant |
Lacking any evident, elongate, aboveground stem, other than reproductive axes, at maturity, the leaves and/or reproductive axes arising essentially at substrate level from a very short axis with highly congested nodes. |
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…colpate |
= …fossulate, …furrowed, …grooved, …sulcate, …valleculate |
architecture |
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Having the number of colpi indicated by the prefix; esp. pollen grains; as in monocolpate, polycolpate, 3-colpate. |
