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laminar 1 |
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position |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the lamina (blade) of a foliaceous structure. |
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tunic |
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STRUCTURE |
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A membranous covering outside the epidermis, especially around bulbs and corms, often becoming loose, sometimes scarious. |
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wing 2 |
= ala |
STRUCTURE |
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One of the two lateral petals in a papilionaceous corolla. |
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capitate 3 |
= capitiform, head-shaped |
solid shape |
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Basically globose and resembling a head in the context of occurrence. |
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opposite 1 |
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arrangement |
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Disposed in pairs along the axis, the members of each pair inserted at the same level across from one another. |
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column 2 |
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STRUCTURE |
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A fused androecium (connate stamens) closely surrounding but free from the gynoecium; esp. in Malvaceae. |
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phyllode |
= phyllodium |
STRUCTURE |
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A leaf deemed to consist entirely or almost entirely of tissues evolutionarily derived from the petiole, all or a distal portion of which has become expanded and blade-like, the original blade reduced to the point of absence or vestigiality. |
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cuspidate |
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apex |
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Tapering gradually to a rigid tip composed of both vascular and laminar tissues. |
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pubescent 2 (strict sense) |
= downy |
pubescence |
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Of or bearing relatively short, slender, soft, more or less erect, capillate trichomes. See also puberulent. This is one of the most ambiguous terms in the botanical lexicon; it should not be used unless its intended meaning is explicit. |
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duration |
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Extent of lifetime, or persistence and physical state after maturation. |
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rostellate |
= small-beaked |
apex |
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Diminutively rostrate (beaked). |
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felted |
> panniform, pannose |
pubescence |
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Of or bearing closely intertwined, capillate trichomes that form a dense, felt-like mat. |
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gelatinous |
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texture |
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Jelly-like; soft, moist, continuously cohesive, texturally homogeneous, somewhat resilient, and easily cut. |
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square |
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plane shape |
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Equilaterally rectangular. |
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hispid |
= setose; < bristly |
pubescence |
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Bearing relatively long and slender, more or less straight, terete, fine-pointed, stiff trichomes. See also hispidulous (setulose, small-bristly). |
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kidney-shaped 1 |
= reniform |
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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villosulous |
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pubescence |
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Finely villose (shaggy, villous). |
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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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megastrobilus pl. megastrobili |
= female cone, macrostrobilus (not recommended) |
STRUCTURE |
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A strobilus (cone) whose fertile organs are all megasporophylls. |
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caesious |
< ceraceous, cereous, pruinose, waxen, waxy |
coating |
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Greenish pruinose; covered with a thin, opaque, greenish deposit (bloom) of macroscopically indistinguishable waxy particles that rubs off easily. See also glaucescent, glaucous. |
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obtrulliform |
= obtrullate |
plane shape |
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Inversely trulliform (trowel-shaped, trullate). |
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crista pl. cristae |
= crest |
STRUCTURE |
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A laterally elongate, relatively thin, irregular or notched, apical protrusion. |
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prominence |
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CHARACTER |
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Elevation or depression of a discrete feature relative to the surrounding surface. |
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distichous |
= two-ranked |
arrangement |
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Disposed in two ranks along the axis, the ranks opposite one another. |
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rhachis |
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STRUCTURE |
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See rachis. |
