fleeting |
= fugacious |
duration |
structure |
Wilting or withering very shortly after emergence, soon becoming inconspicuous and falling away or disintegrating. |
late-maturing |
= serotinous |
maturation |
structure |
Maturing late in the growing season, or late relative to the developmental progress of its context. |
perennate |
|
duration |
structure |
Persisting in a functional state through the entire growing season. |
radicant |
= rooting |
architecture |
structure |
Developing adventitious roots; esp. stems or leaves. |
sessile |
= exstipitate, stalkless, unstalked |
architecture |
structure |
Lacking a stalk, thus inserted ("sitting") directly upon the bearing structure. |
stipitate |
< stalked |
architecture |
structure |
Having a stipe. |
exstipitate |
= sessile, stalkless, unstalked |
architecture |
structure |
Lacking a stalk, thus inserted ("sitting") directly upon the bearing structure. |
deciduous 1 |
|
duration |
structure |
Separating and falling away from the bearing axis, organ or plant prior to senescence of the latter, usually by developing an anatomically distinct, transverse, basal zone of cells (abcission layer), where separation occurs. See also seasonally deciduous. |
accrescent |
|
duration |
structure |
Increasing further in size after the bearing structure has become functionally mature; esp. a calyx after anthesis. |
neotenous |
|
maturation |
structure |
Retaining at maturity attributes that are usually restricted to the juvenile stage. |
submergent |
|
location |
structure of aquatic plant |
Descending from above the water surface to a point beneath it. |
emersed |
|
location |
structure of aquatic plant |
Above the water surface. |
alternate 2 |
|
arrangement |
structures in multiple whorls |
Having those of each whorl staggered radially in relation to those of the adjacent whorl(s). |
gynobasic |
|
insertion |
style |
Apparently arising from the ovary base. |
basiscopic |
|
orientation |
subordinate structure |
Directed, facing, or pointing ("looking") toward the base of the bearing structure. |
acroscopic |
|
orientation |
subordinate structure |
Directed, facing, or pointing ("looking") toward the apex of the bearing structure. |
androgynous |
|
reproduction |
taxon |
Monoecious, each inflorescence having a distal sector with only staminate flowers and a proximal sector with only pistillate ones. |
self-fertilizing |
= autogamous, automictic, idiogamous, selfing; > geitonogamous |
reproduction |
taxon |
Having fertilization regularly involving gametes derived from the same plant. |
gynecandrous |
|
reproduction |
taxon |
Monoecious, each inflorescence having a distal sector with only pistillate flowers and a proximal sector with only staminate ones. |
andromonoecious |
|
reproduction |
taxon |
Having all plants with both bisexual flowers and staminate ones. |
trioecious |
|
reproduction |
taxon |
Having some flowers or spikelets functionally unisexual and some bisexual, some plants having only staminate or only pistillate types, other plants having only bisexual types. |
selfing |
= autogamous, automictic, idiogamous, self-fertilizing; > geitonogamous |
reproduction |
taxon |
Having fertilization regularly involving gametes derived from the same plant. |
heterosporous |
|
reproduction |
taxon |
Producing two types of spore, microspore and megaspore, which are sexually distinct and usually different in size, each megaspore giving rise to a megagametophyte, each microspore to a microgametophyte. |
gynodioecious |
|
reproduction |
taxon |
Having some plants with only bisexual flowers and some with only pistillate ones. |
gynomonoecious |
|
reproduction |
taxon |
Having all plants with both bisexual flowers and pistillate ones. |