oil-secreting |
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exudation |
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Producing and exuding an oily substance, often aromatic; when oil-secreting glands are indicated in the nominative, often they are called simply oil glands. |
fibrous |
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texture |
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Having tough, woody or sclerotic strands distributed through a softer matrix. |
eusporangiate |
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reproduction |
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Having relatively large sporangia each of which develops from a group of initial cells that, by periclinal divisions, give rise to an outer layer of primary cells and an inner layer of sporogenous cells; in Psilotophyta, Lycopodiophyta, Equisetophyta, and some Polypodiophyta. |
gum |
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SUBSTANCE |
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A highly viscous and sticky exudate that becomes more or less elastic and/or deformably solid upon drying. Overlaps conceptually with latex. |
lodicule |
= squamella |
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One of two or three small, scale-like structures inserted at the base of the androecium, distal to the palea, in most grass (Poaceae) flowers; often regarded as a vestigial branch or perianth member. |
serrulate |
= small-sawtoothed |
margin |
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Finely serrate (sawtoothed). See also crentate (scalloped), crenulate (small-scalloped), dentate (toothed), denticulate (small-toothed). |
scale-like |
= squamiform |
solid shape |
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Isodiametric to elongate in broad outline, relatively very thin, and planate to moderately concave-convex. |
articulate(d) |
= jointed |
architecture |
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Elongate with one or more distinct, relatively narrow zones of demarcation between adjacent main portions of the whole, these articulations (joints) often thicker and sometimes sites of eventual abscission. |
flexuose |
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course |
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See flexuous. |
bract 1 (broad sense) |
> bracteole, bractlet, phyllary, prophyll(um); >< scale |
STRUCTURE |
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Any lateral structure ontogenetically and anatomically analogous with, and therefore presumably homologous with, but relatively smaller than, a leaf, especially when subtending an inflorescence, other reproductive structure, or portion thereof; putatively, an evolutionarily reduced leaf. |
abaxial |
= dorsal (not recommended) |
position |
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On or pertaining to the side or portion of a lateral structure that faces (or would face) away from the bearing axis when (or if) the axis of the lateral structure is (or were) oriented in the same general direction as the bearing axis. |
lentiginose |
= dusty, lentiginous |
coating |
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Covered with a more or less even deposit of minute, dry, macroscopically indistinguishable particles. See also pulverulent (granuliferous, powdery), which is not clearly distinct in its application. |
subround |
= subcircular; suborbicular misapplied, subrotund misapplied |
plane shape |
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Compressed circular or very broadly elliptic, only slightly longer than wide. |
…winged |
= …pterous |
architecture |
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Having the number of wings (alae) indicated by the prefix; as in 3-winged, five-winged. |
oblanceolate |
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plane shape |
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Inversely lanceolate (lancehead-shaped). |
decurved |
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orientation |
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Curving abaxially. See also incurved. |
epichilium |
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STRUCTURE |
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The distal portion of a labellum (lip) that has distinct proximal, distal, and sometimes also central parts; in Orchidaceae. See also hypochilium, mesochilium. |
glaucescent |
< ceraceous, cereous, pruinose, waxen, waxy |
coating |
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Becoming glaucous with age. See also caesious. |
ligule 3 |
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STRUCTURE |
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A relatively small, attenuate, membranous, laminar enation from the adaxial surface of a leaf near its base; in Selaginella, Isoetes. |
S-shaped 1 |
= sigmoid |
course |
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Curved more or less regularly first in one direction and then in the opposite direction, like the letter S. |
pistil |
> carpel |
STRUCTURE |
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Any simple or compound, discrete or histologically distinct, female (ovule-producing) floral structure, or any putatively homologous sterile structure; comprising an ovary and one or more stigmas borne either directly upon the ovary or upon one or more intervening styles. See also gynoecium. |
checkered 2 |
= tessellate |
relief |
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Having a pattern of regularly disposed squares marked by raised or depressed vasculature. |
supervolute |
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vernation |
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Each with one side rolled adaxially inward from the margin and enveloped by the abaxially rolled opposite side. |
lanciform |
= lancehead-shaped, lanceoloid |
solid shape |
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Considerably longer than broad, compressed or not, broadest near the base and somewhat concavely attenuate to the apex, the attenuation in all median longitudinal planes or else largely confined to one, depending upon the extent of compression, if any. See also oblanciform (oblanceoloid). |
streaked 2 |
= striate; < lineate |
relief |
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Covered with very narrow and shallow, relatively long, more or less straight and parallel depressions. |