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muriculate |
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relief |
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Finely muricate. |
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fine-pitted |
= foveolate, scrobiculate |
relief |
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Finely pitted (foveate). |
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laevigate 1 |
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relief |
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Very smooth. |
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foveolate |
= fine-pitted, scrobiculate |
relief |
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Finely foveate (pitted). |
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reticulate 3 |
= netted |
relief |
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Having prominulous, more or less regularly interconnected lines. |
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alveolate |
= honeycombed |
relief |
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Having generally uniform, regularly and closely disposed, transversely polygonal depressions overall, the pattern resembling the external aspect of a honeycomb. |
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pitted |
= foveate |
relief |
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Having numerous, small, rounded depressions. See also fine-pitted (foveolate, scrobiculate). |
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fissured |
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relief |
bark |
Split or cracked vertically, diagonally, and/or horizontally in a regular or irregular pattern, the fissures not encircling the stem individually. |
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exfoliating |
|
relief |
bark |
Shallowly and distantly fissured, falling away in thin, relatively large patches or sheets. |
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streaked 2 |
= striate; < lineate |
relief |
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Covered with very narrow and shallow, relatively long, more or less straight and parallel depressions. |
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checkered 2 |
= tessellate |
relief |
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Having a pattern of regularly disposed squares marked by raised or depressed vasculature. |
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bisexual |
= hermaphroditic |
reproduction |
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Having functional reproductive structures of both sexes. See also perfect. |
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female |
= feminine |
reproduction |
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Of the sex that produces megaspores and ova. |
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amphimictic |
|
reproduction |
taxon, plant |
Reproducing sexually. |
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self-fertilizing |
= autogamous, automictic, idiogamous, selfing; > geitonogamous |
reproduction |
taxon |
Having fertilization regularly involving gametes derived from the same plant. |
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polygamous |
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reproduction |
taxon |
Having both bisexual and unisexual flowers, borne on the same or on different plants. |
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apomictic |
= asexual; > agamospermous, apogamous, aposporous, vegetative |
reproduction |
taxon, plant |
Producing new plants by means not involving meiosis or fertilization. |
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monoclinous |
= synoecious |
reproduction |
taxon |
Having all flowers functionally bisexual; this condition is implied by default if no other is specified. See also diclinous. |
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cross-fertilizing |
= allogamous, allomictic, exogamous, xenogamous |
reproduction |
taxon |
Having fertilization regularly involving gametes derived from different plants. |
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selfing |
= autogamous, automictic, idiogamous, self-fertilizing; > geitonogamous |
reproduction |
taxon |
Having fertilization regularly involving gametes derived from the same plant. |
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digamous |
|
reproduction |
inflorescence |
Bearing flowers of two differing sexual constitutions; esp. in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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monoecious |
< diclinous |
reproduction |
taxon |
Having all flowers or spikelets functionally unisexual, and all plants having both staminate and pistillate types. See also dioecious. |
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feminine |
= female |
reproduction |
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Of the sex that produces megaspores and ova. |
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trioecious |
|
reproduction |
taxon |
Having some flowers or spikelets functionally unisexual and some bisexual, some plants having only staminate or only pistillate types, other plants having only bisexual types. |
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vegetative |
< apomictic, asexual |
reproduction |
plant |
Producing new plants asexually by proliferation or fragmentation of sterile tissue, without formation of embryos (or seeds). The logical antecedent of this term is "reproduction," not the taxon in point or "plants," and syntax should be governed accordingly. Whenever this mode of reproduction is noted, the relevant propagative structures should be identified. |
