bulbous |
= bulbose |
architecture |
plant |
Growing from and/or bearing bulbs. |
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. |
crassate |
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architecture |
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Relatively thick for the type of structure or in the taxonomic context. |
fossulate |
= colpate, furrowed, grooved, sulcate, valleculate |
architecture |
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Having one or more elongate, relatively narrow and shallow depressions (fossulae). |
spikeleted |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Having the penultimate subdivisional order consisting of spikelets. |
ligulate 1 |
= liguliferous |
architecture |
structure |
Having a ligule. |
pappose |
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architecture |
flower, fruit |
Bearing a pappus; esp. in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
ramous |
= branched, ramiform, ramose |
architecture |
axis, laminar vein |
Dividing into or bearing branches. |
lax |
= loose |
architecture |
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Having equivalent constituent parts disposed distant from one another. |
berry-like |
= baccate |
architecture |
fruit |
Having the structure and texture of a berry. |
multiciliate |
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architecture |
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Having several to many cilia. |
petal-like |
= petaloid |
architecture |
structure |
Resembling a petal in shape, texture and color. |
cucullate 1 |
= hooded |
architecture |
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Bearing, incorporating, or surmounted by a hood-shaped structure. |
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). |
…furrowed |
= …colpate, …fossulate, …grooved, …sulcate, …valleculate |
architecture |
|
Having the number of furrows indicated by the prefix; as in five-furrowed, 3-furrowed. |
isodiametric |
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architecture |
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Of approximately constant breadth in all median planes. |
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). |
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. |
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). |
sectile |
|
architecture |
pollinium |
Having partially separated sectors, as though cut. |
…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. |
ligulate 2 |
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architecture |
floret |
Bisexual with a zygomorphic corolla; in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
vaginate |
= sheathed |
architecture |
structure |
Closely enclosed over some or all of its length by a terete or involute structure. |
acroramous |
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architecture |
axis |
Branching at or near the apex. |
bracteate |
= bracted |
architecture |
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Bearing or subtended by one or more bracts. |