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auriculate |
= eared |
base |
laminar structure |
Having two small, rounded, lateral lobes, one to either side, that lie in more or less the same plane as the remainder of the lamina. |
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heart-shaped 1 |
= cordate |
base |
laminar structure |
Having two equal, more or less rounded, retrorse lobes, one to either side, overlapping or not, the intervening sinus relatively deep. |
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sagittate 1 |
= arrowhead-shaped |
base |
laminar structure |
Having two retrorse, generally triangular lobes, one to either side. |
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obtriangular 1 |
= cuneate, wedge-shaped |
base |
laminar structure |
Attenuate with the sides more or less straight and intersecting at an acute angle. |
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caudate 2 |
= tailed |
base |
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With one or more relatively slender, retrorse basal enations or appendages. |
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calcarate |
= spurred |
base |
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Having a relatively slender protrusion resembling a spur. |
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arrowhead-shaped 1 |
= sagittate |
base |
laminar structure |
Having two retrorse, generally triangular lobes, one to either side. |
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halberd-head-shaped 1 |
= hastate |
base |
laminar structure |
Having two generally triangular lobes, one to either side, oriented more or less perpendicular to the central axis. |
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obtuse 2 |
= blunt |
base |
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Bluntly angular; having an angular proximal portion whose generalized sides intersect at an angle of 90° or more. |
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eared |
= auriculate |
base |
laminar structure |
Having two small, rounded, lateral lobes, one to either side, that lie in more or less the same plane as the remainder of the lamina. |
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blunt 2 |
= obtuse |
base |
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Bluntly angular; having an angular proximal portion whose generalized sides intersect at an angle of 90° or more. |
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remote |
= distant |
arrangement |
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Disposed relatively far from one another along the axis. |
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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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pleurorhizal |
= accumbent |
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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circular |
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arrangement |
bundle scars |
Forming a circle. |
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convolute 2 |
|
arrangement |
cotyledons |
Each rolled or folded inward longitudinally, one enveloping the other. |
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overlapping 2 |
= imbricate(d) |
arrangement |
planate structures |
Overlapping one another laterally and/or longitudinally. |
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imbricate(d) 2 |
= overlapping |
arrangement |
planate structures |
Overlapping one another laterally and/or longitudinally. |
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U-form |
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arrangement |
bundle scars |
Disposed in a truncated elliptical pattern, like the letter U. |
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conduplicate 1 |
= duplicate |
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. |
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paired |
= conjugate, geminate |
arrangement |
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Inserted by pairs, the members of each fused or not. |
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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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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. |
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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. |
