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spinulose |
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apex |
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Finely spinose. |
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crested |
= cristate |
apex |
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Having a laterally elongate, relatively thin, irregular or notched protrusion. |
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…dentate 1 |
= …-toothed |
apex |
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Generally truncate but with the number of antrorse, attenuate, distal lobes indicated by the prefix; as in tridentate. |
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sharp |
= acute |
apex |
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Acutely angular; regularly and more or less straightly attenuate to an angular tip, the sides intersecting at an angle of less than 90°. |
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small-beaked |
= rostellate |
apex |
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Diminutively beaked (rostrate). |
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cirrhous |
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apex |
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Having a narrow spiral tip that is a continuation of the central primary vein. |
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…-toothed 1 |
= …dentate |
apex |
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Generally truncate but with the number of antrorse, attenuate, distal lobes indicated by the prefix; as in three-toothed. |
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hooked |
= hamate, uncinate |
apex |
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Having a recurved terminal portion that resembles a hook. |
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aristate 2 |
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apex |
pappus scale |
Terminating in one or more awn- or bristle-like appendages. |
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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. |
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truncate 1 |
= abrupt |
apex |
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Having a distal boundary that is generally straight or plane and approximately perpendicular to the central axis. |
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mucronulate |
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apex |
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Finely mucronate. See also apiculate. |
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retuse |
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apex |
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Round overall with an obtuse terminal sinus. |
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awned |
= aristate, bristled |
apex |
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Bearing one or more awns (aristae, bristles, setae). |
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acrid 1 |
= pungent |
apex |
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Terminating abruptly in a rigid, relatively short, sharp point composed of both vascular and laminar tissues. |
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horned |
= corniculate |
apex |
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Bearing one or more horns (cornicula). |
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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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even-pinnate |
= paripinnate |
architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Compound with each order pinnate and comprising an even number of members, none truly terminal. |
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stalked 5 |
= funiculate |
architecture |
ovule |
Having a funiculus (funicle), by which it is attached to the ovary wall. |
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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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hypostomatous |
= hypostom(at)ic |
architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Having stomata on only the abaxial surface. |
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heterophyllous |
< heteromorphic |
architecture |
taxon, plant |
Having leaves that differ distinctly in size and/or shape, either on the same plant at the same or different times or segregated on separate plants within the taxon. |
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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. |
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petiolulate |
< stalked |
architecture |
leaflet |
Having a petiolule. |
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…colpate |
= …fossulate, …furrowed, …grooved, …sulcate, …valleculate |
architecture |
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Having the number of colpi indicated by the prefix; esp. pollen grains; as in monocolpate, polycolpate, 3-colpate. |
