pedunculate |
< stalked |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Having a peduncle. |
spinescent |
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architecture |
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Becoming spinose. |
clathrate |
= cancellate, latticed |
architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Having portions of the blade naturally devoid of any but vascular tissue, which forms an open lattice in those areas. |
dendritic |
= tree-like |
architecture |
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Like the branched axial structure of a tree. |
costate |
= ribbed |
architecture |
laminar structure |
Having one or more costae (ribs). |
discoid 2 |
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architecture |
capitulum (head) |
Bearing florets that all have actinomorphic corollas and that are all bisexual, or all functionally staminate, or all functionally pistillate; in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
multicipital |
= many-stemmed |
architecture |
plant |
Having many, more or less equal, principal stems arising at substrate level from a caudex or root crown. |
gamophyllous |
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architecture |
plant, shoot axis, involucre |
Having pairs or whorls of leaves or bracts that are connate at their edges. |
…pistilled |
= …gynous, …pistillate |
architecture |
flower, gynoecium |
Having the number of pistils indicated by the prefix; as in three-pistilled. |
contractile |
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architecture |
structure |
Diminishing in length, or acquiring the potential energy for a sudden decrease, due to the generation of internal tension during tissue development. |
fenestrate |
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architecture |
pollen grain |
Having more or less isodiametric, regularly disposed lacunae. |
dichasiiform |
= dichasium-like |
architecture |
capitulescence, inflorescence |
Resembling a dichasium, but not strictly such. |
…sulcate |
= …colpate, …fossulate, …furrowed, …grooved, …valleculate |
architecture |
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Having the number of sulci indicated by the prefix; esp. pollen grains; as in monosulcate, polysulcate, 3-sulcate. |
…seriate 1 |
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architecture |
trichome |
Multicellular with the number of longitudinal columns of superposed cells indicated by the prefix; as in biseriate, multiseriate, uniseriate. |
perulate |
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architecture |
bud |
Having outer scales that enclose and protect the embryonic components, from which they differ significantly in texture, shape, size, relief and/or vestiture. See also naked. |
cross-shaped 1 |
= cruciate |
architecture |
corolla, perianth |
Having four petals or tepals disposed in pairs of opposite members, the whole resembling a cross when viewed from above. |
brachiate |
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architecture |
axis |
Having alternate, divaricate branches. |
…carpellate |
= …carpelled |
architecture |
flower, gynoecium, pistil, ovary, fruit |
Deemed to have or to consist of the number of carpels indicated by the prefix; as in polycarpellate,tricarpellate, unicarpellate. |
solid |
= continuous |
architecture |
pith |
Uninterrupted by cavities and essentially homogeneous in texture at axis maturity. |
symmetric(al) 1 |
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architecture |
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Divisible into essentially equal halves along one or more lines or planes. |
gamosepalous |
= synsepalous |
architecture |
flower, perianth, calyx |
Having two or more sepals that are partially or wholly connate. |
bulbose |
= bulbous |
architecture |
plant |
Growing from and/or bearing bulbs. |
peloric |
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architecture |
corolla |
Regular when the usual condition in the taxon is irregular. |
colpate |
= fossulate, furrowed, grooved, sulcate, valleculate |
architecture |
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Having one or more elongate, relatively narrow and shallow depressions (colpi). |
carpellate (not recommended) |
= pistillate |
architecture |
inflorescence, flower, floret |
Having functional pistils but no functional stamens, thus unisexual and female. |