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asymmetric(al) 1 |
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architecture |
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Not divisible into essentially equal halves along any line or plane. |
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asymmetric(al) 1 |
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plane shape |
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Not divisible into essentially equal halves along any line or plane. |
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asymmetric(al) 1 |
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solid shape |
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Not divisible into essentially equal halves along any line or plane. |
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continuous 3 |
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architecture |
rachilla, rachis |
Not disarticulating at maturity. |
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obsolete (not recommended) |
= rudimentary; > vestigial |
manifestation |
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Not developing fully and not functional compared with corresponding structures in other taxa. |
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rudimentary |
= obsolete (not recommended); > vestigial |
manifestation |
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Not developing fully and not functional compared with corresponding structures in other taxa. |
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vestigial |
< obsolete (not recommended), rudimentary |
manifestation |
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Not developing fully and not functional compared with corresponding structures in other taxa, and thought to have devolved to that state from a fully developed and functional structure in an ancestral taxon. |
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unbranched 2 |
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architecture |
laminar veinlet |
Not branching within the areole. |
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eramous |
= unbranched |
architecture |
axis, laminar vein |
Not branching at any point. |
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unbranched 1 |
= eramous |
architecture |
axis, laminar vein |
Not branching at any point. |
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aphyllous |
= leafless |
architecture |
plant, axis |
Not bearing leaves. |
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leafless |
= aphyllous |
architecture |
plant, axis |
Not bearing leaves. |
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hapaxanthic |
= monocarpic |
reproduction |
plant |
Normally reproducing sexually only once, then promptly senescent. |
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monocarpic |
= hapaxanthic |
reproduction |
plant |
Normally reproducing sexually only once, then promptly senescent. |
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biennial 1 |
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duration |
plant, stem |
Normally living two years; germinating or forming and growing vegetatively during one cycle of seasons, then reproducing sexually and dying during the following one. |
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annual 1 |
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duration |
plant, stem |
Normally living one year or less; growing, reproducing, and dying within one cycle of seasons. |
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perennial 1 |
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duration |
plant |
Normally living more than two years, with no definite limit to its life span. |
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polycarpic |
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reproduction |
plant |
Normally fruiting repeatedly prior to senescence. |
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thermocleistogamous |
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reproduction |
flower |
Normally chasmogamous but facultatively cleistogamous during periods of lower-than-normal temperature. |
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xerocleistogamous |
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reproduction |
flower |
Normally chasmogamous but facultatively cleistogamous during drier than normal periods. |
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leaf-opposed |
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insertion |
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Nodal and directly opposite the leaf. |
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leaf-opposed |
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position |
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Nodal and directly opposite the leaf. |
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abortive |
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maturation |
spore, pollen, seed |
Never attaining functional maturity due to defective or arrested development. |
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raphides sing. raphis |
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STRUCTURE |
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Needle-like crystals of calcium oxalate contained within the cells of some plants; esp. in Araceae. |
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subequal |
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size |
equivalent structures |
Nearly uniform in extent. See also equal, unequal. |
