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pouch-shaped |
= bag-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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disc 1 var. disk |
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STRUCTURE |
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Any distinct, annular to discoid structure produced from or borne upon a floral receptacle between or basal to any of the sets of floral organs; usually fleshy, often nectariferous. |
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repand |
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margin |
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Gently or shallowly sinuate. |
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erect |
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orientation |
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Perpendicular to the horizon or to the general plane of a bearing structure. |
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scutellate |
= platter-shaped, scutelliform |
solid shape |
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Relatively thin with opposite broad oval faces, shallowly concave-convex; like a serving platter. See also scutate (buckler-shaped, scutiform), which is not clearly distinct in its application. |
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spicule |
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A small, fine, stiff, acute protrusion that resembles a little spike. |
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hard-coated |
= corticate |
texture |
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Having a hard exterior layer and a distinct, softer interior. |
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inframedial |
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position |
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Slightly below the middle of the structure in point. |
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thallus 2 pl. thalli |
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STRUCTURE |
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The main body of a gametophyte, bearing rhizoids, gametangia (antheridia and/or archegonia), and/or gemmae cups; usually thin and more or less planate, inconspicuous, and growing appressed to or beneath the substrate surface; in Psilotophyta, Lycopodiophyta, Equisetophyta, Polypodiophyta. See also prothallus. |
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acrid 1 |
= pungent |
apex |
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Terminating abruptly in a rigid, relatively short, sharp point composed of both vascular and laminar tissues. |
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loose 1 |
= lax |
architecture |
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Having equivalent constituent parts disposed distant from one another. |
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netted 2 |
= reticulate |
coloration |
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Having a pattern of interconnected fine lines of contrasting hue and/or intensity. |
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ceraceous 1 |
= cereous, waxen, waxy; > caesious, glaucescent, glaucous, pruinose |
coating |
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Covered with wax or a wax-like substance. |
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papilla pl. papillae |
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A small, conoidal protrusion resembling a pimple. See also pustule (blister, bulla). |
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plicate 1 |
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aestivation |
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Valvate with each member strongly infolded longitudinally. |
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dextrorse |
= rightward |
orientation |
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Directed to the right, relative to the direction of growth along an explicit or implicit axis of reference. See also sinistrorse (leftward). |
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ramal |
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insertion |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the stem branches. |
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scabrid |
= rough, scabrate, scabridous, scabrous |
relief |
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Having small, stout, stiff, more or less acute protrusions. |
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fleshy |
= carnose, sarcous |
texture |
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Fairly firm and dense, juicy or at least moist, and easily cut. |
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small-bristly |
= setulose |
pubescence |
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Finely setose (hispid). |
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grooved |
= colpate, fossulate, furrowed, sulcate, valleculate |
architecture |
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Having one or more relatively narrow and shallow longitudinal depressions (grooves). |
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stipule scar |
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FEATURE |
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A scar on a stem or petiole due to abscission of a stipule; having an outline like that of a transverse section through the base of the stipule inserted there; variously disposed, usually in pairs, adjacent to a point of leaf insertion, sometimes confluent with the leaf scar, sometimes confluent with stipule scars associated with an opposite leaf, the two sets of scars then more or less encircling the axis. |
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immersed |
< sunken |
prominence |
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Deeply sunken. |
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tapeworm-shaped |
= taeniate |
solid shape |
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Slender, elongate, basically cylindric or compressed-cylindric with shallow, narrow, more or less regular constrictions along its length, the whole apparently segmented and straight or variously curved. |
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lateral vein |
>< costa, primary vein, rib; > secondary vein |
STRUCTURE |
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A longitudinal primary vein (costa, rib) that runs to one side of the midline, or a secondary vein that runs toward the lateral margin. See also tertiary vein, veinlet. |
