liana |
< vine |
nominative |
plant |
Perennial with elongate ligneous stems that are flexible at least initially and that climb upon trees and shrubs. |
diffuse-rooted |
> fibrous-rooted |
architecture |
plant |
Having a dense system of adventitious, slender roots that arise from the base of the main stem and functionally replace an evanescent primary root. See also taprooted. |
pterocaulous |
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architecture |
plant |
Having alate (winged) stems. |
pitcher-leaved |
= ascidiate |
architecture |
plant |
Bearing pitcher-bladed (ascidiate) leaves; esp. in Nepenthaceae, Sarraceniaceae. |
lianous |
< viny |
habit |
plant |
Having elongate, ligneous stems that are flexible at least initially and that climb upon trees and shrubs. |
multicipital |
= many-stemmed |
architecture |
plant |
Having many, more or less equal, principal stems arising at substrate level from a caudex or root crown. |
winter annual |
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nominative |
plant |
Annual, germinating in autumn, overwintering in a vegetative state (usually as a rosette aboveground), reproducing sexually from early spring through summer, and dying promptly thereafter. See also summer annual. |
fibrous-rooted |
< diffuse-rooted |
architecture |
plant |
Diffuse-rooted with fibrous roots. See also taprooted. |
hemiepiphytic |
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habit |
plant |
Partially epiphytic; rooted in the ground but with stems growing upon and supported mainly by other plants. |
deciduous 2 |
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habit |
plant |
Perennial and having all leaves separating and falling away during a particular portion of the yearly cycle, especially the autumn or the dry season, between growing seasons. Semantically, this term is properly applied only to the entity that falls, not to the structure that it separates and falls from; in traditional usage, though, the term has been applied to trees and other perennial plants that shed all their leaves at some time during the yearly cycle. |
epiphytic |
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habit |
plant |
Physically supported in its entirety by another plant through all or the major part of its life. |
bush |
< frutex, shrub |
nominative |
plant |
A short shrub that branches from ground level. See also subshrub (suffrutex, undershrub), tree, woody clump. |
floating 1 |
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habit |
plant |
Buoyant and growing entirely at or near the surface of water, not rooted in any substrate. |
runnering |
= sarmentose, stoloniferous |
architecture |
plant |
Producing runners (stolons), by means of which it propagates vegetatively. |
hemiparasitic |
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nutrition |
plant |
Partially parasitic; facultatively heterotrophic to a limited degree and capable of obtaining a portion of its essential nourishment directly from other living organisms, to which no reciprocal benefit accrues. |
shrub |
= frutex; > bush |
nominative |
plant |
Perennial, woody, relatively short, with a single main stem that is not distinctly columnar and branches from or above ground level, the branches often crowded. See also subshrub (suffrutex, undershrub), tree, woody clump. |
bushy |
< shrubby; >< frutescent, fruticose |
habit |
plant |
Having or developing the character of a bush. See also arboreous, arborescent, subshrubby, suffrutescent, suffruticose, tree-like, woody-clumping. |
shrubby |
> bushy, frutescent, fruticose |
habit |
plant |
Having or developing the character of a shrub. See also arboreous, arborescent, subshrubby, suffrutescent, suffruticose, tree-like, woody-clumping. |
annual 2 |
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nominative |
plant |
Of annual duration. |
perennial 1 |
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duration |
plant |
Normally living more than two years, with no definite limit to its life span. |
woody clump |
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nominative |
plant |
An aggregate of woody main stems that arise from belowground organs derived from a single progenitor; the members of a clump are individually tree- or shrub-like and sometimes become physically separate over time. See also bush, frutex, shrub, subshrub, suffrutex, tree, undershrub. |
prop-rooted |
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architecture |
plant |
Bearing and buttressed by prop roots. |
perennial 2 |
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nominative |
plant |
Of perennial duration. |
subshrub |
= suffrutex, undershrub |
nominative |
plant |
Of shrub-like form but with only the base woody, bearing herbaceous branches that die back at the end of each growing season. See also bush, shrub (frutex), tree, woody clump. |
woody-clumping |
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habit |
plant |
Having or developing the character of a woody clump. See also arboreous, arborescent, bushy, frutescent, fruticose, shrubby, subshrubby, suffrutescent, suffruticose, tree-like. |