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            collar 1           | 
                  
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            The free portion (if any) of a floral tube, distal to its casing and/or neck when one or both is/are present.           | 
              
          
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            collar 2           | 
                  
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            FEATURE           | 
                  
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            The junction between the sheath and blade of a leaf; esp. in Poaceae (Gramineae).           | 
              
          
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            collateral           | 
                  
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            insertion           | 
                  
            buds           | 
                  
            In pairs within or immediately straddling the leaf axils, the members of a pair lateral to one another.           | 
              
          
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            collateral           | 
                  
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            position           | 
                  
            buds           | 
                  
            In pairs within or immediately straddling the leaf axils, the members of a pair lateral to one another.           | 
              
          
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            coloration           | 
                  
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            CHARACTER           | 
                  
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            Hue(s), intensity(ies), and/or pattern (if any) of coloring.  When more than one hue and/or intensity is involved, a term describing the pattern of contrast will be applicable, and the description as a whole should be phrased to indicate the particular role of each in the pattern; e.g., "ovaries striate, yellow on green"; "petals pink, spotted yellow basally"; "sepals green, suffused with red".           | 
              
          
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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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            …colpate           | 
                  
            = …fossulate, …furrowed, …grooved, …sulcate, …valleculate           | 
                  
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            Having the number of colpi indicated by the prefix; esp. pollen grains; as in monocolpate, polycolpate, 3-colpate.           | 
              
          
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            …colporate           | 
                  
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            architecture           | 
                  
            pollen grain           | 
                  
            Having the number of colpi indicated by the prefix, each containing a pore; as in dicolporate, 3-colporate.           | 
              
          
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            colporate           | 
                  
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            architecture           | 
                  
            pollen grain           | 
                  
            Having one or more elongate, relatively  narrow and shallow depressions (colpi), each containing a pore.           | 
              
          
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            colpus  pl. colpi           | 
                  
            = fossula, furrow, groove, sulcus, vallecula           | 
                  
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            An elongate depression that is relatively shallow and narrow.           | 
              
          
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            columella 1  pl. columellae, columellas           | 
                  
            = carpophore; < stalk           | 
                  
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            Any pedestal-like prolongation of a floral receptacle extending beyond the distalmost level of perianth insertion and bearing the gynoecium.           | 
              
          
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            columella 2  pl. columellae, columellas           | 
                  
            = carpophore; < stalk           | 
                  
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            The stalk supporting a mericarp after dehiscence of a schizocarpic fruit, the central axis of the fruit having split longitudinally to yield two or four such stalks; composed of receptacular and (primarily) gynoecial tissues; esp. in Apiaceae (Umbelliferae).           | 
              
          
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            column 1           | 
                  
            = gynandrium, gynostemium           | 
                  
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            A central floral structure consisting of the partly to wholly fused (connate and adnate) androecium and gynoecium; esp. in Orchidaceae.           | 
              
          
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            column 2           | 
                  
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            STRUCTURE           | 
                  
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            A fused androecium (connate stamens) closely surrounding but free from the gynoecium; esp. in Malvaceae.           | 
              
          
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            column foot           | 
                  
            = mentum           | 
                  
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            A lateral, often nectariferous protrusion from the proximal portion of a column, opposite the labellum, projecting in front of the rest of the flower; in Orchidaceae.           | 
              
          
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            coma  pl. comae, comas           | 
                  
            < tuft           | 
                  
            STRUCTURE           | 
                  
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            A prominent single tuft of relatively long and slender, flexible, capillate trichomes; esp. from a seed, as in Asclepias (Asclepiadaceae).           | 
              
          
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            comb-shaped           | 
                  
            = pectinate           | 
                  
            plane shape           | 
                  
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            Finely divided, the divisions slender, oriented more or less perpendicular to the central axis, and resembling the teeth of a comb.           | 
              
          
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            commissure           | 
                  
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            FEATURE           | 
                  
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            Precisely, the joint or common boundary between the facing surfaces of two coherent or mutually appressed structures such as mericarps or stigmas, but traditionally (though imprecisely) applied to such a facing surface itself.           | 
              
          
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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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            compact           | 
                  
            = congested, crowded           | 
                  
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            Having equivalent constituent parts disposed very near to one another.           | 
              
          
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            complanate           | 
                  
            = compressed; < flattened           | 
                  
            solid shape           | 
                  
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            Flattened bilaterally, parallel to the longitudinal axis, as though pressed or squeezed from opposing sides, the external surface otherwise basically convex.  This term usually implies a strong degree of flattening.  See also depressed, obcompressed.           | 
              
          
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            complete           | 
                  
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            architecture           | 
                  
            flower           | 
                  
            Having all sets of basic floral structures (calyx and corolla, or else undifferentiated perianth; androecium; and gynoecium) present and functionally normal.           | 
              
          
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            complex           | 
                  
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            architecture           | 
                  
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            Comprising two or more basic structural entities, at least two of which are dissimilar.           | 
              
          
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            composite           | 
                  
            = compound           | 
                  
            architecture           | 
                  
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            Unitary as a whole but comprising two or more equivalent substructural entities, these topologically distinct (e.g., leaflets in a compound leaf) or not (e.g., carpels in a compound pistil).           | 
              
          
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            compound           | 
                  
            = composite           | 
                  
            architecture           | 
                  
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            Unitary as a whole but comprising two or more equivalent substructural entities, these topologically distinct (e.g., leaflets in a compound leaf) or not (e.g., carpels in a compound pistil).           |