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muricate |
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relief |
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Having short, hard, more or less acute, transversely round protrusions overall. See also muriculate. |
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vestiture |
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STRUCTURE / SUBSTANCE |
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See vesture. |
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embryotega pl. embryotegae, embryotegas |
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STRUCTURE |
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A small, hardened, lid-like portion of the testa (seed coat) at the micropyle of some seeds, detaching at germination. |
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pome |
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nominative |
fruit |
Indehiscent with accessory floral tube tissue adnate to the pericarp; derived from a single, inferior, compound ovary; the exterior thick and fleshy, the interior consisting of several locules bounded by cartilaginous tissue; in Rosaceae. |
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vascular |
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position |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the vasculature. |
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anchoring |
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habit |
trichome |
Serving as a means of attachment to some external support. |
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cotyloid |
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architecture |
flower |
Having general adnation among the different sets of floral structures, thus having the ovary inferior and/or having a floral tube. |
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cormose |
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architecture |
plant |
Growing from corms. |
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apotropous |
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orientation |
ovule |
Anatropous but the whole recurved such that the raphe (adnate portion of the funiculus) faces the ovary wall (placenta) and the ovule is parallel to it, the micropyle facing the free basal portion of the funiculus. |
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epiphyllous |
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position |
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Upon the leaves, or partially adnate thereto and apparently arising therefrom. |
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cyme |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
Determinate and constituting a compound dichasium or monochasium, the flowers maturing from the center outward (i.e., the distal or inner flowers maturing first); often more or less flat-topped. See also cymule, dichasium, helicoid cyme, monochasium, rhipidium, scorpioid cyme. |
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ray floret |
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STRUCTURE |
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A floret that has a zygomorphic corolla, is pistillate (either fertile or sterile) or neuter, and is borne in a radiate capitulum (head) peripheral (proximal) to the disc florets; in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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derivation |
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CHARACTER |
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Ontogenetic origin. |
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floating 2 |
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location |
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At or upon the surface of water. |
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duration |
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CHARACTER |
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Extent of lifetime, or persistence and physical state after maturation. |
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integumentary |
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derivation |
aril |
Produced from or a modification of one or both seed integuments. |
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asymmetric(al) 1 |
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architecture |
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Not divisible into essentially equal halves along any line or plane. |
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indument |
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STRUCTURE / SUBSTANCE |
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See indumentum. |
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isthmus |
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STRUCTURE |
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A narrower portion connecting two wider or broader portions of an inclusive structure. |
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suture |
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FEATURE |
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An evident line of ontogenetic union. |
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barb 2 |
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STRUCTURE |
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A trichome terminated by one or two small, relatively short, stiff, sharp, acutely reflexed appendages. |
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absent |
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presence |
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Not occurring within the context in point. |
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tetradynamous |
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architecture |
flower, androecium |
Diadelphous with four stamens in one set and two in the other. See also didynamous. |
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taprooted |
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architecture |
plant |
Having a taproot. See also diffuse-rooted, fibrous-rooted. |
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muriculate |
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relief |
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Finely muricate. |
