solid shape |
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CHARACTER |
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Overall three-dimensional form or aspect(s) thereof. Overlaps conceptually with architecture, arrangement, habit, insertion, orientation, position, relief, and texture (as to thickness). |
axillary |
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insertion |
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Within the axil; nodal and at or very close to the vertex of the distal angle between a lateral structure, especially a leaf, and the axis that bears it. |
palaceous |
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architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Having the petiole attached to the abaxial face of the blade at some point within the margin and adnate to it from there to the margin, thus peltate but with the distal portion of the petiole adnate to the blade, the whole shovel- or spade-like. |
adventitious root |
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STRUCTURE |
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A root that arises laterally from some part of a shoot, often from the lower portion of a main stem. |
spinulose |
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apex |
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Finely spinose. |
solitary 2 |
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habit |
plants |
Growing singly; not aggregated. |
throat 2 |
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STRUCTURE |
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The fully connate portion of the limb of a disc floret, proximal to the lobes (distinct distal portions of the petals); in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
homochlamydeous |
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architecture |
flower |
Having a perianth undifferentiated into distinct proximal and distal envelopes (calyx and corolla); composed of tepals, all essentially alike. |
pappus pl. pappi |
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STRUCTURE |
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A set of one or more awns (aristae, bristles, setae) or scales at the summit of an inferior ovary just beneath or outside the free portion of the corolla; persisting in the fruit (cypsela) and often aiding wind or animal dispersal; in Asteraceae (Compositae). Considered by some to be an evolutionarily modified upper calyx portion, the lower portion having been incorporated into the floral tube casing adnate to the ovary wall; considered by others to be an outgrowth from the ovary wall. |
syncarpous |
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architecture |
flower, gynoecium |
Having one or more compound pistils. |
tree |
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nominative |
plant |
Perennial, woody, more or less erect, relatively tall, with one or more distinct aboveground portions each with a single, relatively stout, columnar, main stem (trunk or bole) that bears branches. See also bush, frutex, shrub, subshrub, suffrutex, undershrub, woody clump. |
discoid 2 |
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architecture |
capitulum (head) |
Bearing florets that all have actinomorphic corollas and that are all bisexual, or all functionally staminate, or all functionally pistillate; in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
terrestrial |
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habit |
plant |
Growing upon the ground, usually rooted in it. |
waisted |
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solid shape |
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Constricted in width or breadth at or near the middle of its length. |
free |
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fusion |
dissimilar structure(s) |
Not fused with or joined to any other dissimilar structure(s). |
rachis 1 var. rhachis |
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STRUCTURE |
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A main or first-order axis of a compound leaf blade. |
epipetalous |
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position |
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Upon the petals, or partially adnate thereto and apparently arising therefrom. |
isopolar |
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architecture |
pollen grain, spore |
Having evident polarity, the proximal and distal halves similar. |
lacuna pl. lacunae |
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FEATURE |
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A hole or cavity; an empty space surrounded by tissue in two or three dimensions. |
cloying |
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odor |
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Sickeningly sweet. |
receptacular |
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position |
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Upon, arising from, or otherwise directly associated with the receptacle. |
cyathium pl. cyathia |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
Resembling a single flower, the unbranched axis very short with a terminal pistillate flower and several lateral staminate flowers, the whole subtended and to some degree enclosed by a cupulate envelope of bracts, the flowers diminutive and presumed to be evolutionarily reduced; characteristic of Euphorbia. |
comose |
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pubescence |
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Bearing a prominent single tuft of relatively long and slender, flexible, capillate trichomes (coma). |
…angular 1 |
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arrangement |
bundle scars |
Forming a figure with the number of sides indicated by the prefix. |
bark |
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STRUCTURE |
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The outermost portion of any shoot or root axis having secondary growth, consisting of all those tissues outside the vascular cambium; sometimes exhibiting zonation into inner, living bark and outer, dead bark; usually described only as to external appearance. |