remote |
= distant |
arrangement |
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Disposed relatively far from one another along the axis. |
obvolute 1 |
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arrangement |
cotyledons |
Having each cotyledon folded inward longitudinally, the two facing one another with their edges overlapping alternately (each enveloping one side or the other). |
semielliptic |
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arrangement |
bundle scars |
Forming an incomplete ellipsis, like the letter U. |
fascicled 2 |
= bundled (not recommended), fasciculate |
arrangement |
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Disposed in one or more fascicles, the members of each inserted close together and only slightly if at all divergent from one another. |
opposite 1 |
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arrangement |
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Disposed in pairs along the axis, the members of each pair inserted at the same level across from one another. |
approximate |
= close |
arrangement |
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Disposed relatively near to one another. |
opposite 2 |
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arrangement |
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Having the members of each whorl inserted directly above and/or below those of the next adjacent whorl(s). See also antipetalous, antisepalous. |
subopposite |
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arrangement |
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Alternate but verging on opposite. |
spiral 1 |
= acyclic, helical |
arrangement |
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Disposed helically about and along the axis, each on a different radius than the one(s) vertically adjacent. |
elliptic(al) 1 |
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arrangement |
bundle scars |
Forming an ellipse |
fasciculate 2 |
= bundled (not recommended), fascicled |
arrangement |
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Disposed in one or more fascicles, the members of each inserted close together and only slightly if at all divergent from one another. |
circular |
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arrangement |
bundle scars |
Forming a circle. |
linear 1 |
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arrangement |
bundle scars |
Disposed in a more or less straight line. |
pseudomonadal |
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arrangement |
pollen |
Apparently monadal but each grain actually comprising an unseparated original tetrad in which the contiguous walls between component grains have dissolved. |
fastigiate |
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arrangement |
branches |
Closely parallel to one another and to the axis of origin over most of their lengths. |
U-form |
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arrangement |
bundle scars |
Disposed in a truncated elliptical pattern, like the letter U. |
…ranked |
= …stichous |
arrangement |
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Disposed along the axis in the number of distinct ranks indicated by the prefix; as in two-ranked. |
pollinial |
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arrangement |
pollen |
Polyadal with the grains of individual thecae (pollen sacs), or of fused thecae, compacted and forming tightly coherent masses (pollinia) that constitute the basic dispersal units, these sometimes distally attenuate to a sterile caudicle (translator arm), sometimes united by caudicles in groups of two or more, the caudicle(s) sometimes attached to a viscidium, either directly or through an intervening stipe; esp. in Asclepiadaceae, Orchidaceae. |
duplicate 1 |
= conduplicate |
arrangement |
cotyledons |
Adaxially contiguous, folded sharply together longitudinally (one adaxially, one abaxially), and reflexed together, one enveloping the hypocotyl and radicle, the other enveloping the first. |
distant |
= remote |
arrangement |
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Disposed relatively far from one another along the axis. |
spirolobal |
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arrangement |
cotyledons |
Incumbent and folded together transversely. |
distichous |
= two-ranked |
arrangement |
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Disposed in two ranks along the axis, the ranks opposite one another. |
imbricate(d) 2 |
= overlapping |
arrangement |
planate structures |
Overlapping one another laterally and/or longitudinally. |
polyadal |
|
arrangement |
pollen |
Shed in groups of more than four, each group comprising grains from two or more original tetrads, the latter intact or not. |
cyclic |
= seriate, verticillate, 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 around the axis at the same level. |