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pinnatisect |
< pinnate, pinnatifid |
plane shape |
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Pinnately divided with the sinuses extending to the central axis. |
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puncticulate |
= small-dotted |
relief |
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Finely punctate (dotted). |
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egg-shaped 1 |
= ovate |
plane shape |
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Elongate and wholly convex, widest near a bluntly rounded base and attenuate to a narrower rounded apex; like the lateral outline of a fowl egg. See also obovate. |
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round |
= orbiculate, orbicular misapplied |
plane shape |
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Circular. |
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glabrous |
= bald, psilate |
pubescence |
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Lacking trichomes. |
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honeycombed |
= alveolate |
relief |
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Having generally uniform, regularly and closely disposed, transversely polygonal depressions overall, the pattern resembling the external aspect of a honeycomb. |
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supramedial |
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insertion |
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Just above the middle of the structure in point. |
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knotted |
= torulose |
solid shape |
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Elongate and irregularly round in transverse section with narrow irregular constrictions and intervening, closely proximate gongyloid sectors, the whole straight or variously curved; serially gongyloid; like a sequentially knotted rope. |
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trulliform |
= trowel-shaped, trullate |
plane shape |
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Broadest below the middle, more or less straightly attenuate to either end, the sides angled at the level of greatest width; like the blade of a mason's trowel. See also obtrullate, obtrulliform. |
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waisted |
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solid shape |
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Constricted in width or breadth at or near the middle of its length. |
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bag-shaped |
= pouch-shaped, saccate, sack-shaped |
solid shape |
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Irregularly obovoid with an exterior aspect intermediate between inflated and flaccid; like a closed pouch or bag. |
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microphyll |
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STRUCTURE |
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A small, lateral, leaf-like enation that, evolutionarily, is not a true leaf, i.e., whose vasculature, if any, consists of only a single median strand not ontogenetically integral with the vasculature of the bearing stem and not associated with leaf gaps in the stele of the stem; in Bryophyta, Psilotophyta, Lycopodiophyta, Equisetophyta. |
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calyculus 2 pl. calyculi |
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STRUCTURE |
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Collectively the bractlets (bracteoles) sometimes subtending (beneath or outside) the involucre in a capitulum (head); in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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cobwebby |
= arachnoid |
pubescence |
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Of fairly sparse, fine, white, loosely tangled, capillate trichomes. |
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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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prothallus pl. prothalli |
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STRUCTURE |
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A very diminutive thallus that is reproductively mature and undergoes no further growth; in Polypodiophyta, Pinophyta. |
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dome-shaped |
= tholiform |
solid shape |
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Convex overall, broadest at the base, and transversely more or less circular to elliptical throughout. |
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rhytidomal |
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position |
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Within, upon, or otherwise directly associated with the bark. |
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eyespotted |
= ocellate |
coloration |
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Having a more or less circular area that differes in hue and/or intensity from the remainder of the structure; esp. a corolla with such an area at its center. |
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sepal |
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STRUCTURE |
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One of the one or more constituent members of a calyx; usually green and leaf-like, but sometimes with color and/or texture otherwise, sometimes petaloid; may be distinct or else connate with one or more others and/or may be free or else adnate to one or more other floral structures. |
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funiculus pl. funiculi |
= funicle; < stalk |
STRUCTURE |
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A stalk that attaches an ovule to a placenta of the ovary wall. |
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spore leaf |
= sporophyll; > fertile frond |
STRUCTURE |
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A leaf or homologous structure that bears sporangia See also megasporophyll (macrosporophyll, not recommended), microsporophyll. |
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subulate 1 |
= awl-shaped |
plane shape |
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Narrowly triangular or truncate-triangular and broadest at the base; like the outline of the lateral face of an awl. |
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torulose |
= knotted |
solid shape |
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Elongate and irregularly round in transverse section with narrow irregular constrictions and intervening, closely proximate gongyloid sectors, the whole straight or variously curved; serially gongyloid; like a sequentially knotted rope. |
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venation |
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CHARACTER |
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Configuration of laminar vasculature as to its hierarchical organization and the dispositions of component orders. For descriptive purposes, the orders of vasculature are ranked with reference only to the lamina in point, irrespective of rank within any larger vascular context. |
