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squamiform |
= scale-like |
solid shape |
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Isodiametric to elongate in broad outline, relatively very thin, and planate to moderately concave-convex. |
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fasciculate 2 |
= bundled (not recommended), fascicled |
arrangement |
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Disposed in one or more fascicles, the members of each inserted close together and only slightly if at all divergent from one another. |
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squamose |
= lepidote, squamate; < scaly |
pubescence |
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Bearing squamae (lepides). See also squamellose. |
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superficial |
= surficial |
position |
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Directly upon the surface of the structure in point. |
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keel 1 |
= carina |
STRUCTURE |
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An elongate, median longitudinal ridge that is basically triangular in transverse section and resembles the keel of a boat; esp. in leaf blades and sheaths, glumes, lemmata, paleae, sepals, petals. |
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trichome |
> bristle, capillus, glochid, glochidium, hair, lepis, scale, seta, squama, squamella, squamule; >< cilium |
STRUCTURE |
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Any superficial, unicellular or multicellular structure arising entirely from an epidermis. Unlike other epidermal enations or coverings, trichomes are cellular structures. |
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vesture var. vestiture |
= indumentum |
STRUCTURE / SUBSTANCE |
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The trichomes and/or exuded substance that overlie a surface proper, regarded collectively. See also coating, pubescence. |
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megasporangium pl. megasporangia |
= macrosporangium (not recommended) |
STRUCTURE |
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A sporangium that produces megaspores. |
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obterete |
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solid shape |
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Inversely terete. |
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…cleft |
? …fid, …lobate, …lobed, …parted, …partite, …segmented |
plane shape |
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Having the number of lobes, divisions or segments indicated by the prefix; as in three-cleft. |
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crest |
= crista |
STRUCTURE |
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A laterally elongate, relatively thin, irregular or notched, apical protrusion. |
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dissepiment |
< septum; > replum |
STRUCTURE |
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A wall or partition between adjacent locules of an ovary or fruit. |
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retuse |
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apex |
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Round overall with an obtuse terminal sinus. |
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segment |
? division, lobe |
STRUCTURE |
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Any generally convex, major peripheral protrusion or component sector that is delimited by concavities in the surface or margin and that is not proximally distinct from the remainder of the whole. |
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friable |
= brittle |
texture |
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Dry, firm and easily broken. |
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spinulose |
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margin |
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Finely spinose. |
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heart-shaped 2 |
= cordate |
plane shape |
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Fairly regularly attenuate from a broad, bilobate base to a narrow apex, the lobes large, rounded, retrorse, and intersecting; like the stylized outline of the broad lateral face of a heart. See also obcordate. |
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subpetiolar |
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insertion |
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Just below the point of petiole insertion. |
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internodal |
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position |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the internodes. |
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tiered |
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arrangement |
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In two or more rows that are arrayed one above another. |
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limb 1 |
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STRUCTURE |
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A relatively broad portion of a syntepalous (gamotepalous) perianth, synsepalous (gamosepalous) calyx, or sympetalous (gamopetalous) corolla distal to a narrower tube, spreading outward or ascending from the tube, comprising the distinct or connate distal portions of the tepals, sepals, or petals; except in bisexual or staminate disc florets of Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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acyclic |
= helical, spiral |
arrangement |
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Disposed helically about and along the axis, each on a different radius than the one(s) vertically adjacent. |
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arillode |
< aril (broad sense) |
STRUCTURE |
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A "false" aril; an appendicular structure that wholly or partly envelops a seed and is produced from or a modification of the outer integument or (in some Pinophyta) a subtending involucre, but not from the funicle or raphe, and thus is not ontogenetically derived from the placenta; usually fleshy or pulpy, sometimes spongy or tufted-capillate, often brightly colored. |
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macrostrobilus pl. macrostrobili (not recommended) |
= female cone, megastrobilus |
STRUCTURE |
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A strobilus (cone) whose fertile organs are all megasporophylls. |
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branch |
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STRUCTURE |
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Any higher-order division of or outgrowth from an axis, vein or veinlet when such division or outgrowth is equivalent in nature to the structure of origin. |
