halberd-head-shaped 1 |
= hastate |
base |
laminar structure |
Having two generally triangular lobes, one to either side, oriented more or less perpendicular to the central axis. |
wedge-shaped 1 |
= cuneate, obtriangular |
base |
laminar structure |
Attenuate with the sides more or less straight and intersecting at an acute angle. |
eared |
= auriculate |
base |
laminar structure |
Having two small, rounded, lateral lobes, one to either side, that lie in more or less the same plane as the remainder of the lamina. |
clawed |
= unguiculate |
plane shape |
l |
Having an abruptly much narrower proximal portion (claw or unguis), itself of variable shape but usually attenuate toward the base; esp. petals. |
unguiculate |
= clawed |
plane shape |
l |
Having an abruptly much narrower proximal portion (unguis or claw), itself of variable shape but usually attenuate toward the base; esp. petals. |
pistillate |
= carpellate (not recommended) |
architecture |
inflorescence, flower, floret |
Having functional pistils but no functional stamens, thus unisexual and female. |
carpellate (not recommended) |
= pistillate |
architecture |
inflorescence, flower, floret |
Having functional pistils but no functional stamens, thus unisexual and female. |
staminate |
|
architecture |
inflorescence, flower, floret |
Having functional stamens but no functional pistils, thus unisexual and male. |
pulvinate 1 |
|
architecture |
inflorescence axis, petiole |
Having a pulvinus. |
epulvinate |
|
architecture |
inflorescence axis, petiole |
Lacking a pulvinus. |
anthela pl. anthelae |
|
nominative |
inflorescence |
A cyme with the main axis markedly shorter than the lateral axes, appearing generally paniculate when compound; esp. in Juncaceae. |
anthelate |
|
architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more anthelae; esp. in Juncaceae. |
pedunculate |
< stalked |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Having a peduncle. |
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. |
corymb |
|
nominative |
inflorescence |
An indeterminate, more or less condensed raceme with the pedicels progressively shorter toward the distal end, the flowers all borne at approximately the same level, the whole generally plane or convex at the top, the flowers maturing from the edge inward (i.e., the proximal or outer flowers maturing first). |
dichasium pl. dichasia |
|
nominative |
inflorescence |
Determinate and falsely dichotomous with each axial segment bearing a sessile terminal flower and either a pair of opposite pedicellate lateral flowers or a pair of opposite lateral branches. See also cincinnus, cyme, cymule, helicoid cyme, monochasium, scorpioid cyme. |
continuous 1 |
|
architecture |
inflorescence |
Having the flowers or branch units distributed evenly along the axis, with no significant interruption. |
panicle |
|
nominative |
inflorescence |
A compound (branched) raceme, the elongate main axis either determinate or indeterminate, its lateral branches racemose. |
corymbose |
|
architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more corymbs. |
paniculate |
|
architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more panicles. |
raceme |
|
nominative |
inflorescence |
An elongate, unbranched main axis bearing pedicellate flowers inserted singly along it. |
head |
= capitulum |
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). |
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. |
spadicate |
|
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). |
fascicled 1 |
= bundled (not recommended), fasciculate |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more fascicles. |