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bud scale |
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STRUCTURE |
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A scale that, alone or aggregated with others, envelops and protects a bud. |
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obdeltoid |
< three-angled, trigonous, triquetrous |
solid shape |
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Three-angled (trigonous, triquetrous), broadest distally, and regularly attenuate to an angular base; inversely deltoid. |
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cottony |
> lanuginose |
pubescence |
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Of or bearing relatively long and fine, intertwined, somewhat matted, capillate trichomes. See also lanuginose. |
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reniform 1 |
= kidney-shaped |
plane shape |
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Broadly elongate and arcuate, each end bluntly rounded; like the generalized outline of the broad face of a human kidney. |
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sculpture |
= relief |
CHARACTER |
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General topographic aspect of a surface. Overlaps conceptually with solid shape. |
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infrafoliar |
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position |
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Upon the stem directly below a leaf insertion. |
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texture |
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CHARACTER |
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Substantial properties. Overlaps conceptually with solid shape, as to thickness. |
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leptosporangiate |
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reproduction |
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Having relatively small sporangia each of which develops from a single initial cell that, by periclinal division, gives rise to an outer and an inner cell, the former then giving rise to the entire sporangium, including contents and sporangiophore, the latter contributing nothing to it; in some Polypodiophyta. |
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unisexual |
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reproduction |
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Having functional reproductive structures of only one sex. See also imperfect, pistillate, staminate. |
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acinaciform |
= scimitar-shaped |
solid shape |
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Thin and moderately arcuate with two opposite, plane, broad faces, the degree of curvature increasing distally, thinnest at the convex edge, thicker toward the concave; like a scimitar blade. |
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arachnoid |
= cobwebby |
pubescence |
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Of fairly sparse, fine, white, loosely tangled, capillate trichomes. |
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longitudinal 1 |
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dehiscence |
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Parallel to the central axis. |
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bony |
= osseous |
texture |
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Very hard and rather brittle, like bone. |
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centripetal |
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development |
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Proceeding toward the center, thus more advanced peripherally than centrally within a given frame of reference. |
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papery |
= chartaceous, papyraceous |
texture |
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Very thin, flexible, and readily torn; like paper. See also membranaceous (membranous), pergamentaceous (parchment-like). |
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pliable |
= flexible, pliant, supple |
texture |
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Able to bend over its length and/or breadth without structural disruption. |
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determinate |
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development |
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Having the terminal (central, apical, or distal) portion differentiating first and the lateral (peripheral, basal, or proximal) portions later, development thus proceeding sequentially downward or outward, growth of the whole thereby organizationally limited. |
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radix pl. radices |
= root |
STRUCTURE |
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A vascularized axis that is not internally differentiated into nodes and internodes and that branches endogenously, serving for anchorage, absorption and/or storage; collectively, all those portions of a plant body not belonging (anatomically) to the shoot. See also adventitious root, climbing root, diffuse root, knee root, primary root, prop root, secondary root, stilt root. |
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sawtoothlet |
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STRUCTURE |
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A diminutive sawtooth. See also scallop (crena), scalloplet (crenule), tooth (dens), toothlet. |
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slipper-shaped |
= calceolate |
solid shape |
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Relatively thin-walled with an essentially hollow interior that is open on one side at the broader end. |
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imbricate(d) 1 |
= overlapping |
aestivation |
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Having members whorled or spirally inserted and overlapping one another, each overlapping or overlapped to either side, and also above or below if spirally arranged or in multiple whorls. |
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tapered |
= attenuate |
plane shape |
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Gradually diminishing in width or diameter from one end to the other. |
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lateral |
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insertion |
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To, toward, at, or upon a side, not apical or basal. |
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woolly |
> lanate |
pubescence |
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Of or bearing relatively long, moderately stout, intertwined, somewhat matted, capillate trichomes. |
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beaklet 2 |
= rostellum |
STRUCTURE |
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A sterile excrescent stigma lobe protruding between the anther and the functional stigma lobes of a column; sometimes forming one or more viscidia at pollinium maturity; esp. in Orchidaceae. |
