…sepalous |
= …sepaled |
architecture |
flower, perianth, calyx |
Having the number of sepals indicated by the prefix; as in tetrasepalous. |
isodiametric |
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architecture |
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Of approximately constant breadth in all median planes. |
isopetalous |
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architecture |
flower, perianth, corolla |
Having the petals essentially alike in size and shape. |
syncolpate |
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architecture |
pollen grain |
Having two or more fused or confluent surficial grooves (colpi). |
eramous |
= unbranched |
architecture |
axis, laminar vein |
Not branching at any point. |
rooted |
= radicate |
architecture |
plant |
Having one or more roots. |
compound-lipped |
= syndetocheilic |
architecture |
stomate |
Having subsidiary cells derived from the primary stoma mother cell and thus immediately related ontogenetically to the guard cells. |
secund 1 |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Having the pedicels oriented such that the main bodies of all the flowers lie to one side of the bearing axis. |
gaping |
= personate, ringent |
architecture |
corolla |
Bilabiate with the upper lip inwardly arcuate, the lower lip prominent and appressed to the upper at the level of the throat or junction of tube and limb, which is thus normally occluded but which gapes, resembling an open mouth, when the whole is compressed laterally. |
bractleted |
= bracteolate |
architecture |
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Bearing or subtended by one or more bractlets (bracteoles, prophylls). |
headless 1 |
= acephalous |
architecture |
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Not terminated or surmounted by a head-like structure, esp. when one might be expected. |
dialysepalous |
= aposepalous, chorisepalous, polysepalous |
architecture |
flower, perianth, calyx |
Having two or more distinct sepals; having the sepals unfused. |
…ovulate |
= …ovuled |
architecture |
megasporophyll, ovary |
Having the number of ovules indicated by the previx; as in biovulate, multiovulate. |
…stamened |
= …androus |
architecture |
flower, floret, androecium |
Having the number of stamens indicated by the prefix; as in twelve-stamened. |
prop-rooted |
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architecture |
plant |
Bearing and buttressed by prop roots. |
eglandular |
= glandless |
architecture |
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Lacking glands. |
runnering |
= sarmentose, stoloniferous |
architecture |
plant |
Producing runners (stolons), by means of which it propagates vegetatively. |
…gynous |
= …pistillate, …pistilled |
architecture |
flower, gynoecium |
Having the number of pistils indicated by the prefix; as in monogynous, pentagynous, polygynous. |
decompound |
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architecture |
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Comprising two or more orders of equivalent substructural entities; multiply compound. |
polysepalous |
= aposepalous, chorisepalous, dialysepalous |
architecture |
flower, perianth, calyx |
Having two or more distinct sepals; having the sepals unfused. |
basicauliramous |
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architecture |
plant |
Having the stem(s) branching at or near the base. See also basiramous. |
spicate |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more spikes. |
spiciform |
= spike-like |
architecture |
capitulescence, inflorescence |
Resembling a spike, but not strictly such. |
isopolar |
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architecture |
pollen grain, spore |
Having evident polarity, the proximal and distal halves similar. |
syncolporate |
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architecture |
pollen grain |
Syncolpate, each groove containing a pore. |