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duplicate 2 |
= conduplicate |
vernation |
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Each leaf folded sharply inward along its longitudinal axis, the adaxial surfaces of each side facing one another. |
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feather-shaped |
= plumose |
solid shape |
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Having a slender central axis bearing two opposite ranks of numerous, closely proximate, ascending, very slender branches or appendages; resembling the generalized form of a feather. |
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serrulate |
= small-sawtoothed |
margin |
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Finely serrate (sawtoothed). See also crentate (scalloped), crenulate (small-scalloped), dentate (toothed), denticulate (small-toothed). |
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squamule 3 |
= lodicule, squamella |
STRUCTURE |
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One of two or three small, scale-like structures inserted at the base of the androecium, distal to the palea, in most grass (Poaceae) flowers; often regarded as a vestigial branch or perianth member. |
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hirtellous |
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pubescence |
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Finely hirsute. |
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superposed 1 |
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arrangement |
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Approximate to congested, inserted directly above and below one another. |
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keeled |
= carinate |
solid shape |
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Having an elongate median longitudinal ridge that is basically triangular in transverse section, resembling the keel of a boat; esp. a leaf blade or sheath, glume, lemma, palea, sepal or petal. |
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villose |
= shaggy, villous |
pubescence |
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Bearing sparse, long, slender, soft, capillate trichomes that are not intertwined. See also villosulous. |
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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. |
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explosive |
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dehiscence |
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Opening abruptly with almost instantaneous aperture formation and release of accumulated structural tensions, the contents thus forcibly expelled. |
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…segmented |
? …cleft, …fid, …lobate, …lobed, …parted, …partite |
solid shape |
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Having the number of segments indicated by the prefix; as in ten-segmented. |
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fruit |
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STRUCTURE |
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Any unitary seed-bearing structure of a flowering plant, consisting of the matured or ripened pistil(s) of one or more flowers along with any other floral or vegetative tissue(s) persisting adnate to them; characteristic of and unique to Magnoliophyta (Angiospermae). |
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spiral 2 |
= helical |
course |
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Curving with regularly increasing radius from one end to the other in one general plane. |
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helical 2 |
= spiral |
course |
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Curving with regularly increasing radius from one end to the other in one general plane. |
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tomentulose |
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pubescence |
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Finely tomentose. |
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linear 2 |
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plane shape |
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Elongate and narrow with the sides more or less straight and parallel over most of its length. |
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vascular |
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position |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the vasculature. |
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male |
= masculine |
reproduction |
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Of the sex that produces microspores and sperm. |
