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barbellate |
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architecture |
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Bearing one or more barbels. |
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leaf-opposed |
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position |
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Nodal and directly opposite the leaf. |
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comose |
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pubescence |
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Bearing a prominent single tuft of relatively long and slender, flexible, capillate trichomes (coma). |
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mamillate |
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relief |
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Bearing mamillae. |
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mamma pl. mammae |
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STRUCTURE |
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A rounded-conoidal protrusion, resembling the breast of a mammal. |
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bract 2 (strict sense) |
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STRUCTURE |
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Any primary or first-order 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. |
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loculicidal |
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dehiscence |
fruit |
Splitting longitudinally through the outer wall(s) and directly into the locule(s), between the sutures, if any. |
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biennial 1 |
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duration |
plant, stem |
Normally living two years; germinating or forming and growing vegetatively during one cycle of seasons, then reproducing sexually and dying during the following one. |
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monochasium pl. monochasia |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
Determinate and falsely dichotomous with each axial segment bearing a single, sessile terminal flower; presumably derived from a dichasium by loss of the lateral flowers. See also cincinnus, cyme, cymule, dichasium, helicoid cyme, scorpioid cyme. |
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suprafoliar |
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position |
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Upon the stems, each directly above (distal to) and very near a point of leaf insertion. |
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decompound |
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architecture |
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Comprising two or more orders of equivalent substructural entities; multiply compound. |
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calyptriform |
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solid shape |
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Hollow, roughly circular in cross-section, broader and open distally, and tapering to a closed apex, like a candle snuffer or elongate hood. |
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oblique 2 |
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orientation |
planate lateral structure |
Lying in a plane not coincident with the one defined by its longitudinal axis and that of the bearing structure. |
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nodule |
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STRUCTURE |
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A small nodiform (gongylodate, gongyloid, knob-shaped, knot-shaped) segment or protrusion; esp. in roots of Fabaceae (Leguminosae) and harboring nitrogen-fixing bacteria. |
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discal |
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position |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the floral disc. |
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epulvinate |
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architecture |
inflorescence axis, petiole |
Lacking a pulvinus. |
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tunic |
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STRUCTURE |
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A membranous covering outside the epidermis, especially around bulbs and corms, often becoming loose, sometimes scarious. |
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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. |
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acrocaulous |
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insertion |
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At or very near the stem tip. |
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polygamous |
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reproduction |
taxon |
Having both bisexual and unisexual flowers, borne on the same or on different plants. |
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valvate 2 |
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arrangement |
planate structures |
Not overlapping, adjacent members laterally contiguous at their margins. |
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fragrant |
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odor |
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Sweet or otherwise pleasant. |
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plantlet |
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STRUCTURE |
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A juvenile, complete plant produced asexually by budding, as from the leaf margin in some Kalanchoë (Crassulaceae); this term is usually applied only while such vegetatively produced offspring remain attached to the plant of origin. |
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xylary |
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position |
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Within or otherwise directly associated with the wood. |
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floricane |
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STRUCTURE |
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A biennial or perennial stem after it has begun flowering, when that does not occur until at least its second season of growth; applied especially to the stems of brambles (Rubus spp.). |
