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oil-secreting |
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exudation |
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Producing and exuding an oily substance, often aromatic; when oil-secreting glands are indicated in the nominative, often they are called simply oil glands. |
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…fid |
? …cleft, …lobate, …lobed, …parted, …partite, …segmented |
solid shape |
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Having the number of lobes, divisions or segments indicated by the prefix; as in bifid, quadrifid. |
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capitate 2 |
= headed |
solid shape |
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Abruptly enlarged distally to a relatively short, terminal portion that is basically round in transverse section. |
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horned |
= corniculate |
apex |
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Bearing one or more horns (cornicula). |
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striate 2 |
= streaked; < lineate |
relief |
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Covered with very narrow and shallow, relatively long, more or less straight and parallel depressions. |
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beaklet 1 |
= rostellum |
STRUCTURE |
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A small beak or rostrum. |
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midnerve |
= midrib, midvein; < costa, nerve, rib, vein |
STRUCTURE |
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A primary vein that runs longitudinally through the center of a leaf or other basically laminar structure. See also lateral vein, secondary vein, tertiary vein, veinlet. |
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ventral (not recommended) |
= adaxial |
position |
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On or pertaining to the side or portion of a lateral structure that faces (or would face) toward the bearing axis when (or if) the axis of the lateral structure is (or were) oriented in the same general direction as the bearing axis. |
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elastoviscin |
= viscin |
SUBSTANCE |
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A sticky, elastic material, especially that forming the threads that sometimes connect pollen grains. |
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sperm |
> antherozoid, spermatozoid |
STRUCTURE |
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A male gamete. |
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funicle |
= funiculus; < stalk |
STRUCTURE |
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A stalk that attaches an ovule to a placenta of the ovary wall. |
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placentation |
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CHARACTER |
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Disposition of the placenta(e) within an ovary. |
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involute 2 |
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vernation |
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Each rolled adaxially from the lateral margins. |
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ring-shaped |
= annular |
solid shape |
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More or less evenly tubular in a closed circle; like a ring or doughnut. |
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oblanceolate |
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plane shape |
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Inversely lanceolate (lancehead-shaped). |
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…faced |
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solid shape |
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Having relatively large, flat or shallowly curved portions of the external surface that are bounded by more or less distinct angular discontinuities in that surface, of the number indicated by the prefix; as in three-faced. |
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heteromorphic |
> heteroblastic, heterocephalous, heterocladic, heterophyllous, heterostylous |
architecture |
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Occurring in two or more distinctly different forms within the taxon in point, at either the same or different times, in either the same or different plants. |
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sterile frond |
= trophophyll |
STRUCTURE |
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A frond that does not bear sporangia; in Polypodiophyta. See also fertile frond. |
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corneous |
= horny |
texture |
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Hard, dense, fine-grained or compactly fibrous, and tough; resembling the substance of animal horn. |
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psilate |
= bald, glabrous |
pubescence |
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Lacking trichomes. |
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bag-shaped |
= pouch-shaped, saccate, sack-shaped |
solid shape |
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Irregularly obovoid with an exterior aspect intermediate between inflated and flaccid; like a closed pouch or bag. |
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deflexed |
= reflexed |
orientation |
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Abruptly bent outward (abaxially), downward, or backward at some point along its length. |
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mealy 2 |
> farinaceous, farinose |
pubescence |
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Loose, dry, and disintegrating in finely granular pieces like meal or flour. |
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scutiform |
= buckler-shaped, scutate |
solid shape |
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Relatively thin with opposite broad oblong faces, planate to shallowly concave-convex, sometimes thickened about the periphery such that each face has a marginal rim; like an oblong shield. See also scutellate (platter-shaped, scutelliform), which is not clearly distinct in its application. |
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superficial |
= surficial |
position |
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Directly upon the surface of the structure in point. |
