paripinnate |
= even-pinnate |
architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Compound with each order pinnate and comprising an even number of members, none truly terminal. |
heterostylous |
< heteromorphic |
architecture |
taxon, plant, flower |
Having styles that differ distinctly in size and/or shape. |
pitcher-leaved |
= ascidiate |
architecture |
plant |
Bearing pitcher-bladed (ascidiate) leaves; esp. in Nepenthaceae, Sarraceniaceae. |
regular |
= actinomorphic |
architecture |
perianth, calyx, corolla |
Radially symmetric; divisible into two essentially equal portions along any median longitudinal plane. See also peloric. |
unilabiate |
= one-lipped; < labiate, lipped |
architecture |
perianth, calyx, corolla |
Strongly zygomorphic with connate and/or coherent members some or all of whose distal portions form one lip-like structure. |
…furrowed |
= …colpate, …fossulate, …grooved, …sulcate, …valleculate |
architecture |
|
Having the number of furrows indicated by the prefix; as in five-furrowed, 3-furrowed. |
petiolate |
< stalked |
architecture |
leaf |
Having a petiole. |
asepalous |
|
architecture |
flower, perianth |
Lacking sepals. |
winged 1 |
= alate |
architecture |
|
Having one or more elongate, relatively thin protrusions or appendages that resemble wings. |
dialysepalous |
= aposepalous, chorisepalous, polysepalous |
architecture |
flower, perianth, calyx |
Having two or more distinct sepals; having the sepals unfused. |
operculate |
= lidded |
architecture |
|
Having an operculum (lid). |
alete |
|
architecture |
spore |
Lacking a tetrad scar (surficial ridge or angle resulting from coherence with others produced from the same spore mother cell). |
fossulate |
= colpate, furrowed, grooved, sulcate, valleculate |
architecture |
|
Having one or more elongate, relatively narrow and shallow depressions (fossulae). |
sessile |
= exstipitate, stalkless, unstalked |
architecture |
structure |
Lacking a stalk, thus inserted ("sitting") directly upon the bearing structure. |
percurrent 1 |
|
architecture |
primary or secondary laminar veins |
Running through the entire length of the lamina (blade), or all the way to its margin. |
exalate 1 |
= wingless |
architecture |
|
Lacking elongate, relatively thin protrusions or appendages that resemble wings. |
grooved |
= colpate, fossulate, furrowed, sulcate, valleculate |
architecture |
|
Having one or more relatively narrow and shallow longitudinal depressions (grooves). |
spinulose |
|
architecture |
|
Finely spinose. |
liguliflorous |
|
architecture |
capitulum (head) |
Bearing florets that all are bisexual and have zygomorphic corollas; in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
acroramous |
|
architecture |
axis |
Branching at or near the apex. |
decompound |
|
architecture |
|
Comprising two or more orders of equivalent substructural entities; multiply compound. |
homophyllous |
< homomorphic |
architecture |
taxon, plant |
Having leaves that do not differ distinctly in size and/or shape. |
glandular 1 |
|
architecture |
|
Having one or more glands. |
homostylous |
< homomorphic |
architecture |
taxon, plant, flower |
Having styles that do not differ distinctly in size and/or shape. |
…celled |
= …cellular |
architecture |
|
Having the number of cells indicated by the prefix; as in one-celled, few-celled, 5-celled. |