cyathium pl. cyathia |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
Resembling a single flower, the unbranched axis very short with a terminal pistillate flower and several lateral staminate flowers, the whole subtended and to some degree enclosed by a cupulate envelope of bracts, the flowers diminutive and presumed to be evolutionarily reduced; characteristic of Euphorbia. |
thyrse |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
An elongate, indeterminate main axis bearing numerous lateral branches, each the principal axis of a cymose subdivision. |
racemose |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more racemes. |
glomerule |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
A compact cluster of capitula (heads), sometimes subtended by an involucre; thus, a compound capitulum (head); esp. in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
headed 1 |
= capitate |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more capitula. |
…flowered |
= …floral |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Having the number of flowers indicated by the prefix; as in few-flowered, single-flowered, three-flowered. |
spicate |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more spikes. |
secund 1 |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Having the pedicels oriented such that the main bodies of all the flowers lie to one side of the bearing axis. |
catkin |
= ament |
nominative |
inflorescence |
Elongate, more or less flexible and spike-like, often unisexual, the central axis bearing numerous diminutive flowers inserted either singly or in cymules, the pedicels or secondary axes subtended by small, paleaceous bracts or scales, the whole often deciduous as a unit. |
digamous |
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reproduction |
inflorescence |
Bearing flowers of two differing sexual constitutions; esp. in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
anthela pl. anthelae |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
A cyme with the main axis markedly shorter than the lateral axes, appearing generally paniculate when compound; esp. in Juncaceae. |
catkinate |
= amentate |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more catkins. |
anthelate |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more anthelae; esp. in Juncaceae. |
trigamous |
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reproduction |
inflorescence |
Bearing flowers of three differing sexual constitutions; esp. in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
cyme |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
Determinate and constituting a compound dichasium or monochasium, the flowers maturing from the center outward (i.e., the distal or inner flowers maturing first); often more or less flat-topped. See also cymule, dichasium, helicoid cyme, monochasium, rhipidium, scorpioid cyme. |
capitate 1 |
= headed |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more capitula. |
monochasiate |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more simple or compound monochasia. See also cincinnate, cymose, cymulose, dichasiate, helicoid-cymose, scorpioid-cymose. |
spike |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
An elongate, determinate or usually indeterminate axis bearing sessile flowers inserted singly along it, unbranched or sometimes bearing lateral branches of the same nature. |
cymose |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more simple or compound cymes. See also cincinnate, cymulose, dichasiate, helicoid-cymose, monochasiate, rhipidiate, scorpioid-cymose. |
rhipidiate |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more rhipidia. |
pedunculate |
< stalked |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Having a peduncle. |
monochasium pl. monochasia |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
Determinate and falsely dichotomous with each axial segment bearing a single, sessile terminal flower; presumably derived from a dichasium by loss of the lateral flowers. See also cincinnus, cyme, cymule, dichasium, helicoid cyme, scorpioid cyme. |
spikelet |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
A compound structure belonging to the penultimate subdivisional order of a sedge or grass inflorescence; consisting of one or more florets (each a diminutive flower subtended by specialized bractlets (bracteoles) called scales or glumes in sedges, lemma and palea in grasses), spicately arranged along a common axis (rachilla), the axis and florets together subtended by one or (usually) two bracts (first and second glumes). The spikelet is usually considered to be the basic unit of inflorescence in Cyperaceae and Poaceae (Gramineae). |
cymule |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
A diminutive cyme, with few flowers, few or no branches, and short axes. |
rhipidium pl. rhipidia |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
A cyme with the branches alternate and disposed in two opposite ranks along the main axis, the whole fan-like. |