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glutinous 2 |
> mucilaginous, mucous, viscid |
texture |
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Sticky or slimy. |
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stephanocolporate |
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architecture |
pollen grain |
Stephanocolpate, each groove containing a pore. |
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ascending |
= assurgent, upcurved |
orientation |
lateral structure |
Spreading at the base and then curving upward or forward, the distal portion more or less parallel to the bearing structure. |
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assurgent |
= ascending, upcurved |
orientation |
lateral structure |
Spreading at the base and then curving upward or forward, the distal portion more or less parallel to the bearing structure. |
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upcurved |
= ascending, assurgent |
orientation |
lateral structure |
Spreading at the base and then curving upward or forward, the distal portion more or less parallel to the bearing structure. |
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circumscissile |
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dehiscence |
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Splitting transversely through the exterior wall about its entire circumference, the resulting upper cap-like portion falling away. |
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septifragal |
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dehiscence |
fruit |
Splitting through the exterior wall suture(s) but not the septum(-a), the valves of the wall then separating from the septum(-a) and the locules thus opened directly to the outside. |
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dehiscent |
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dehiscence |
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Splitting or forming one or more apertures at maturity, the contents thereby released for dispersal. |
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loculicidal |
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dehiscence |
fruit |
Splitting longitudinally through the outer wall(s) and directly into the locule(s), between the sutures, if any. |
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septicidal |
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dehiscence |
fruit |
Splitting longitudinally into or through the suture(s) in the outer wall and, if present, through the septum(-a) between locules, the latter thus opened indirectly to the outside. |
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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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cylindric(al) |
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solid shape |
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Solid and transversely round with a more or less uniform diameter, the ends blunt. |
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spongy |
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texture |
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Soft, light, discontinuous but cohesive, and somewhat resilient. |
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loose 2 |
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texture |
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Soft overall, discontinuously and only weakly cohesive. |
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achene var. akene |
> caryopsis, grain (not recommended) |
nominative |
fruit |
Small, dry, indehiscent, and usually one-seeded, with the pericarp thin to thick, sometimes osseous, and adnate to the seed; derived from a single, superior, simple or compound, unicarpellate ovary. Although in traditional use caryopsis (or grain) has been treated as a type separate from achene and applied to the fruit of a grass [Poaceae (Gramineae)], they do not differ in basic morphology. See also cypsela, diclesium. |
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papillar(y) |
= papilliform |
solid shape |
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Small, conoidal, and protruding from a larger structure; resembling a pimple; esp. trichomes. |
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papilliform |
= papillar(y) |
solid shape |
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Small, conoidal, and protruding from a larger structure; resembling a pimple; esp. trichomes. |
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mucilaginous 2 |
= mucous; < glutinous |
texture |
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Slimy. |
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mucous 2 |
= mucilaginous; < glutinous |
texture |
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Slimy. |
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rugulose |
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relief |
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Slightly or finely rugose (corrugate, wrinkled). |
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inframedial |
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insertion |
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Slightly below the middle of the structure in point. |
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inframedial |
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position |
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Slightly below the middle of the structure in point. |
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awl-shaped 2 |
= subulate |
solid shape |
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Slender, essentially terete, and straight, gradually attenuate from a relatively narrow base to a very narrow, blunt to angular apex. |
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subulate 2 |
= awl-shaped |
solid shape |
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Slender, essentially terete, and straight, gradually attenuate from a relatively narrow base to a very narrow, blunt to angular apex. |
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taeniate |
= tapeworm-shaped |
solid shape |
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Slender, elongate, basically cylindric or compressed-cylindric with shallow, narrow, more or less regular constrictions along its length, the whole apparently segmented and straight or variously curved. |
