ament |
= catkin |
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. |
corymbose |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more corymbs. |
cyathiate |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more cyathia. |
capitulum pl. capitula |
= head |
nominative |
inflorescence |
Having crowded, sessile or subsessile, small flowers (florets) borne upon an expanded, distally plane or convex, sometimes paleate, compound receptacle (torus), often with a surrounding involucre, and sometimes a subtending calyculus; characteristic of Asteraceae (Compositae). |
amentate |
= catkinate |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more aments. |
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. |
interrupted 2 |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Having one or more gaps in an otherwise uniform distribution of flowers or branch units along the main axis. |
fascicle |
= bundle (not recommended) |
nominative |
inflorescence |
A cluster of pedicellate flowers that are inserted very close together and little if at all divergent from one another, the whole sessile or subsessile. |
fascicled 1 |
= bundled (not recommended), fasciculate |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more fascicles. |
digamous |
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reproduction |
inflorescence |
Bearing flowers of two differing sexual constitutions; esp. in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
bostryx pl. bostryches |
= helicoid cyme |
nominative |
inflorescence |
A cyme in which each axial segment branches to only one side, and all branch to the same side, the whole thus appearing to have an elongate main axis that curves or coils toward its unbranched side. See also scorpioid cyme. |
scorpioid cyme |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
A cyme in which each axial segment branches to only one side, the successive segments branching alternately to either side, the whole appearing to have a continuous, elongate, straight to zig-zag main axis. See also cincinnus, helicoid cyme (bostryx). |
spadicate |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Generally spicate but with the flowers embedded in a thick, fleshy axis, the whole subtended and usually partially or wholly enveloped by a large bract (spathe). |
scorpioid-cymose |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more scorpioid cymes. See also cincinnate, helicoid-cymose. |
fasciculate 1 |
= bundled (not recommended), fascicled |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more fascicles. |
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. |
…floral |
= …flowered |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Having the number of flowers indicated by the prefix; as in bifloral, multifloral, oligofloral, unifloral. |
cincinnate |
< helicoid-cymose |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more cincinni. |
cincinnus pl. cincinni |
< helicoid cyme |
nominative |
inflorescence |
A tightly coiled helicoid cyme (bostryx) with the nodes approximate to congested and the pedicels very short or the flowers sessile. |
cymose |
|
architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more simple or compound cymes. See also cincinnate, cymulose, dichasiate, helicoid-cymose, monochasiate, rhipidiate, scorpioid-cymose. |
involucrate 1 |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Subtended by an involucre. |
umbel |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
Pedunculate, determinate or indeterminate, simple or compound and apparently polychotomous, with one or more pedicellate flowers terminating each ultimate axis, the pedicels of each such floral set and the branches (rays) arising from each axial subdivision diverging from each other like the ribs of an umbrella, the whole plane, convex or concave distally. |
cymule |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
A diminutive cyme, with few flowers, few or no branches, and short axes. |
cymulose |
|
architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more cymules. |
panicle |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
A compound (branched) raceme, the elongate main axis either determinate or indeterminate, its lateral branches racemose. |