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STRUCTURE |
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A leafless, essentially naked, inflorescence-bearing stem (or peduncle) arising directly from a caudex or rhizome, its point of insertion slightly beneath, at, or slightly above the substrate surface. |
lateral |
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insertion |
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To, toward, at, or upon a side, not apical or basal. |
anticlinal |
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orientation |
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Perpendicular to some given plane of reference; applied especially to the plane of cell division when it is oriented at right angles to the generalized plane of the structural surface. |
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". |
spicy |
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odor |
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Pleasantly pungent, reminiscent of spices. |
actinodromous |
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venation |
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Having three or more primary veins that diverge radially from a point at or above the base of the blade and run toward the margin, reaching it or not. |
lip cell |
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STRUCTURE |
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Either of a pair of adjacent, narrow, transversely oriented, thick-walled cells bordering the pore (stomium) of a sporangium. |
stigmatic |
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habit |
trichome |
Borne on the surface of the stigma and serving to hold pollen deposited there, variously shaped, often glandular, sometimes contractile. |
asepalous |
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architecture |
flower, perianth |
Lacking sepals. |
microsporocarp |
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STRUCTURE |
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A sporocarp that bears only microsporangia. |
stamen |
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STRUCTURE |
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A seed-plant organ that produces and releases pollen; usually comprising a stalk (filament) that bears a locular structure (anther) containing sporogenous tissue; however, the filament may be lacking and the anther sessile, or the stamen may be undifferentiated, the whole then consisting of microsporangia embedded in or borne upon the surface of a more or less planate body of sterile tissue; one of the constituent organs of a bisexual or a staminate flower; may be distinct or else connate with one or more others and/or may be free or else adnate with one or more other floral structures. |
cylindric(al) |
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solid shape |
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Solid and transversely round with a more or less uniform diameter, the ends blunt. |
architecture |
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CHARACTER |
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Composite structural configuration as to type, orientation, symmetry, insertion, position, fusion, presence, number, relative size, shape, texture, differentiation, and/or derivation of components and features. Overlaps conceptually with habit. |
digamous |
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reproduction |
inflorescence |
Bearing flowers of two differing sexual constitutions; esp. in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
mucronate |
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apex |
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Terminating abruptly in a short, hard point that is a continuation of vascular tissue. See also apiculate, mucronulate. |
sympodial |
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architecture |
axes |
Branching laterally, each axis of each apparent order of branches comprising a series of laterally derived segments each of which functioned in turn as the distal leader, the apical meristem of each segment dominant until supplanted by that of the next. See also monopodial. |
obvolute 2 |
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vernation |
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Conduplicate with the lateral edges of each leaf alternately overlapping those of the oppositely oriented, distally next adjacent one. |
superposed 2 |
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insertion |
buds |
Axillary in pairs, one member of each pair directly above the other. |
obdeltate |
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plane shape |
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Approximately equilaterally triangular, broadest distally, and regularly attenuate to an angular base; inversely deltate; equilaterally cuneate. |
superposed 2 |
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position |
buds |
Axillary in pairs, one member of each pair directly above the other. |
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). |
divergent |
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arrangement |
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Directed at individually different angles from a common point or relatively limited zone of origin, thus farther apart distally than proximally. |
palmatifid |
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plane shape |
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Palmately lobate; having three or more lobes whose longitudinal axes radiate from a common point. |
terminal |
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insertion |
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Apical and with the same developmental axis as the whole, of which it is the distalmost portion or appendage. |
allagostemonous |
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architecture |
flower, androecium |
Having the stamens inserted alternately upon petals and the receptacle. |