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perfect |
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architecture |
flower |
Having functional pistil(s) and functional stamen(s) both present, thus bisexual (hermaphroditic). |
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tillering |
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architecture |
plant, stem |
Producing tillers; esp. in Poaceae (Gramineae) and other monocotyledons (Liliidae). |
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branched 2 |
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architecture |
laminar veinlet |
Dividing within the areole, each branch ending blindly. |
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non-stomate-bearing |
= astomatiferous |
architecture |
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Lacking stomates in the epidermis. |
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didynamous |
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architecture |
flower, androecium |
Diadelphous with two stamens in each set. See also tetradynamous. |
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…gynous |
= …pistillate, …pistilled |
architecture |
flower, gynoecium |
Having the number of pistils indicated by the prefix; as in monogynous, pentagynous, polygynous. |
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ternate |
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architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Palmate with three leaflets. |
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bigeminate |
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architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Compound with two orders of leaflets, each order bifoliolate. |
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naked 3 |
= achlamydeous |
architecture |
flower |
Lacking a perianth. |
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simple 1 |
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architecture |
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Externally unitary and comprising only one basic morphological unit; not compound in either sense of that term. |
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stephanoporate |
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architecture |
pollen grain |
Having more than three pores disposed equatorially. |
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anisocytic |
= cruciferous |
architecture |
stomate |
Having three subsidiary cells, one distinctly smaller than the others. |
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monochasiform |
= monochasium-like |
architecture |
capitulescence, inflorescence |
Resembling a monochasium, but not strictly such. |
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capitate 1 |
= headed |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more capitula. |
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operculate |
= lidded |
architecture |
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Having an operculum (lid). |
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amphicarpic |
= amphicarpous |
architecture |
plant |
Producing two morphologically or phenologically different types of fruit. |
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perfoliate |
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architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Having a sessile lamina (blade) that uninterruptedly encircles the bearing axis, which thus passes through it at some point within the margin. See also amplexicaulous, connate-perfoliate. |
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…adelphous |
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architecture |
flower, androecium |
Having two or more distinct sets of stamens, the sets differing from one another in the arrangements, insertions, positions and/or morphologies of the included stamens, the number of sets indicated by the prefix, at least one set with two or more members; as in diadelphous, monadelphous, triadelphous. |
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diffuse |
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architecture |
plant, stem |
Having branches remote and divergent to divaricate. |
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scapigerous |
= scapose |
architecture |
plant |
Having the inflorescence borne upon a leafless, essentially naked axis (scape) that arises directly from a caudex or rhizome beneath, at, or slightly above the substrate surface. |
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floriferous |
= flower-bearing |
architecture |
plant, structure |
Bearing flowers. |
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spathaceous 1 |
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architecture |
plant, inflorescence |
Bearing a spathe or spathes. |
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…ternate |
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architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Compound with the number of orders of leaflets indicated by the prefix, each order ternate; as in biternate, thrice-ternate. |
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…leaved |
= …foliate |
architecture |
plant, axis |
Having (only) the number of leaves indicated by the prefix; as in two-leaved. |
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acaulous |
= stemless |
architecture |
plant |
Lacking any evident, elongate, aboveground stem, other than reproductive axes, at maturity, the leaves and/or reproductive axes arising essentially at substrate level from a very short axis with highly congested nodes. |
