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multiciliate |
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architecture |
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Having several to many cilia. |
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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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fossulate |
= colpate, furrowed, grooved, sulcate, valleculate |
architecture |
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Having one or more elongate, relatively narrow and shallow depressions (fossulae). |
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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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multicipital |
= many-stemmed |
architecture |
plant |
Having many, more or less equal, principal stems arising at substrate level from a caudex or root crown. |
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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. |
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andropetalous 1 |
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architecture |
flower, androecium |
Having petaloid, sterile stamens. |
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…petaled |
= …petalous |
architecture |
flower, perianth, corolla |
Having the number of petals indicated by the prefix; as in five-petaled. |
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heteromorphic |
> heteroblastic, heterocephalous, heterocladic, heterophyllous, heterostylous |
architecture |
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Occurring in two or more distinctly different forms within the taxon in point, at either the same or different times, in either the same or different plants. |
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sulcate |
= colpate, fossulate, furrowed, grooved, valleculate |
architecture |
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Having one or more elongate, relatively narrow and shallow depressions (sulci). |
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isopetalous |
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architecture |
flower, perianth, corolla |
Having the petals essentially alike in size and shape. |
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alete |
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architecture |
spore |
Lacking a tetrad scar (surficial ridge or angle resulting from coherence with others produced from the same spore mother cell). |
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asymmetric(al) 2 |
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architecture |
flower |
Having the perianth members in whorls that are irregular and/or unequal in number of members. |
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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). |
