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heterocladic |
< heteromorphic |
architecture |
taxon, plant |
Having stems that differ distinctly in size, shape and/or constitution, either together on the same plant at the same or different times or segregated on separate plants within the taxon. |
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stephanoporate |
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architecture |
pollen grain |
Having more than three pores disposed equatorially. |
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amphicarpous |
= amphicarpic |
architecture |
plant |
Producing two morphologically or phenologically different types of fruit. |
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gamophyllous |
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architecture |
plant, shoot axis, involucre |
Having pairs or whorls of leaves or bracts that are connate at their edges. |
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astomatiferous |
= non-stomate-bearing |
architecture |
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Lacking stomates in the epidermis. |
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adenopetalous 1 |
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architecture |
flower, perianth, corolla |
Having petals produced from glandular structures. |
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stalked 1 |
= pedicellate |
architecture |
flower |
Having a pedicel. |
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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. |
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umbel-like |
= umbelliform |
architecture |
capitulescence, inflorescence |
Resembling an umbel, but not strictly such. |
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polyadal |
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arrangement |
pollen |
Shed in groups of more than four, each group comprising grains from two or more original tetrads, the latter intact or not. |
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imbricate(d) 2 |
= overlapping |
arrangement |
planate structures |
Overlapping one another laterally and/or longitudinally. |
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accumbent |
= pleurorhizal |
arrangement |
cotyledons |
Having the two cotyledons facing and parallel (adaxial surfaces contiguous) and recurved together, one lateral edge of each abutting the hypocotyl and radicle. |
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…stichous |
= …ranked |
arrangement |
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Disposed along the axis in the number of distinct ranks indicated by the prefix; as in distichous, polystichous, tristichous. |
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V-form |
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arrangement |
bundle scars |
Disposed in an open-ended triangular pattern, like the letter V. |
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scalariform |
= ladder-like |
arrangement |
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Disposed in vertical sequence with long axes horizontal and parallel. |
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overlapping 2 |
= imbricate(d) |
arrangement |
planate structures |
Overlapping one another laterally and/or longitudinally. |
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equitant |
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arrangement |
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Alternate, distichous, basal, and congested, each conduplicate with its lateral edges overlapping and/or overlapped by those of the immediately adjacent one(s). |
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superposed 1 |
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arrangement |
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Approximate to congested, inserted directly above and below one another. |
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…angular 1 |
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arrangement |
bundle scars |
Forming a figure with the number of sides indicated by the prefix. |
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tiered |
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arrangement |
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In two or more rows that are arrayed one above another. |
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muriform |
= brickwork-like |
arrangement |
cells |
Disposed like bricks in a wall; in parallel rows, the members in each row overlapping the boundaries between members of the adjacent rows. |
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conjugate |
= geminate, paired |
arrangement |
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Inserted by pairs, the members of each fused or not. |
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monadal |
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arrangement |
pollen |
Shed singly, or essentially so, only loosely and irregularly, if at all, coherent, each original tetrad having separated fully. |
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radial |
= radiant, radiate, stellate |
arrangement |
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Disposed about and mutually divergent from a common geometric center in two or three dimensions, thus collectively actinomorphic. |
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verticillate |
= cyclic, seriate, whorled |
arrangement |
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Disposed along the axis in groups of three or more, the members of each group (cycle, series, verticil, whorl) inserted regularly around the axis at the same level. |
