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spikeleted |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Having the penultimate subdivisional order consisting of spikelets. |
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ligulate 1 |
= liguliferous |
architecture |
structure |
Having a ligule. |
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pappose |
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architecture |
flower, fruit |
Bearing a pappus; esp. in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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ramous |
= branched, ramiform, ramose |
architecture |
axis, laminar vein |
Dividing into or bearing branches. |
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lax |
= loose |
architecture |
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Having equivalent constituent parts disposed distant from one another. |
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multiciliate |
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architecture |
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Having several to many cilia. |
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berry-like |
= baccate |
architecture |
fruit |
Having the structure and texture of a berry. |
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petal-like |
= petaloid |
architecture |
structure |
Resembling a petal in shape, texture and color. |
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cucullate 1 |
= hooded |
architecture |
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Bearing, incorporating, or surmounted by a hood-shaped structure. |
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septate 2 |
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architecture |
trichome |
Unicellular to multicellular with transverse partitions (septa) that are common cell walls (intercellular) and/or intrusions from longitudinal cell walls (intracellular). |
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…furrowed |
= …colpate, …fossulate, …grooved, …sulcate, …valleculate |
architecture |
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Having the number of furrows indicated by the prefix; as in five-furrowed, 3-furrowed. |
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isodiametric |
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architecture |
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Of approximately constant breadth in all median planes. |
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bulbous |
= bulbose |
architecture |
plant |
Growing from and/or bearing bulbs. |
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peltate |
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architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Petiolate with the petiole attached to the abaxial face of the blade at some point within the margin and otherwise free from the blade. |
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crassate |
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architecture |
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Relatively thick for the type of structure or in the taxonomic context. |
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disciform 2 |
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architecture |
capitulum (head) |
Bearing one or more peripheral series of florets that are usually pistillate and that have relatively slender actinomorphic corollas, and one or more central series of florets that are bisexual or functionally staminate and that have relatively broader actinomorphic corollas; in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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sectile |
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architecture |
pollinium |
Having partially separated sectors, as though cut. |
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…fossulate |
= …colpate, …furrowed, …grooved, …sulcate, …valleculate |
architecture |
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Having the number of fossulae indicated by the prefix; as in unifossulate, multifossulate, 5-fossulate. |
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ligulate 2 |
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architecture |
floret |
Bisexual with a zygomorphic corolla; in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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vaginate |
= sheathed |
architecture |
structure |
Closely enclosed over some or all of its length by a terete or involute structure. |
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acroramous |
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architecture |
axis |
Branching at or near the apex. |
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bracteate |
= bracted |
architecture |
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Bearing or subtended by one or more bracts. |
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cormose |
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architecture |
plant |
Growing from corms. |
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diaphragmed |
|
architecture |
pith |
Uninterrupted by cavities but heterogeneous in texture at axis maturity, with sectors of spongy tissue separated by relatively thin transverse plates of denser tissue that occur at the nodes or are otherwise regularly spaced along the axis. |
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multicipital |
= many-stemmed |
architecture |
plant |
Having many, more or less equal, principal stems arising at substrate level from a caudex or root crown. |
