amphicarpic |
= amphicarpous |
architecture |
plant |
Producing two morphologically or phenologically different types of fruit. |
fibrous-rooted |
< diffuse-rooted |
architecture |
plant |
Diffuse-rooted with fibrous roots. See also taprooted. |
acaulous |
= stemless |
architecture |
plant |
Lacking any evident, elongate, aboveground stem, other than reproductive axes, at maturity, the leaves and/or reproductive axes arising essentially at substrate level from a very short axis with highly congested nodes. |
amphicarpous |
= amphicarpic |
architecture |
plant |
Producing two morphologically or phenologically different types of fruit. |
pachycaulous |
|
architecture |
plant |
Having thick, more or less succulent stems. |
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. |
terrestrial |
|
habit |
plant |
Growing upon the ground, usually rooted in it. |
monocarpic |
= hapaxanthic |
reproduction |
plant |
Normally reproducing sexually only once, then promptly senescent. |
liana |
< vine |
nominative |
plant |
Perennial with elongate ligneous stems that are flexible at least initially and that climb upon trees and shrubs. |
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. |
lianous |
< viny |
habit |
plant |
Having elongate, ligneous stems that are flexible at least initially and that climb upon trees and shrubs. |
weeping |
|
architecture |
plant |
Having elongate, flexible, pendent branches. |
soboliferous |
|
architecture |
plant |
Having several, loosely clumped, principal stems that arise from a common underground stem system, each distinct above ground level. |
undershrub |
= subshrub, suffrutex |
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, frutex, shrub, tree, woody clump. |
deciduous 2 |
|
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. |
eradicate |
= rootless |
architecture |
plant |
Lacking a root. |
ascidiate 2 |
= pitcher-leaved |
architecture |
plant |
Bearing ascidiate (pitcher-bladed) leaves; esp. in Nepenthaceae, Sarraceniaceae. |
stoloniferous |
= runnering, sarmentose |
architecture |
plant |
Producing stolons (runners), by means of which it propagates vegetatively. |
gigantic |
|
size |
plant |
Strongly enlarged; unusually or unexpectedly very large throughout. |
rhizomatous |
|
architecture |
plant |
Having rhizomes. |
scapigerous |
= scapose |
architecture |
plant |
Having the inflorescence borne upon a leafless, essentially naked axis (scape) that arises directly from a caudex or rhizome beneath, at, or slightly above the substrate surface. |
scapose |
= scapigerous |
architecture |
plant |
Having the inflorescence borne upon a leafless, essentially naked axis (scape) that arises directly from a caudex or rhizome beneath, at, or slightly above the substrate surface. |
caulescent |
= stemmed |
architecture |
plant |
Having at maturity an evident, elongate, aboveground stem or stems from which branches, leaves, and/or reproductive axes arise at one or more levels along its length. |
radicate |
= rooted |
architecture |
plant |
Having one or more roots. |
fleshy-stemmed |
= sarcocaulous |
texture |
plant |
Having main stems that are fleshy (carnose, sarcous). |