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rostrate |
= beaked |
apex |
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Terminating in a relatively long, tapering, more or less rigid point. See also rostellate (small-beaked). |
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articulate(d) |
= jointed |
architecture |
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Elongate with one or more distinct, relatively narrow zones of demarcation between adjacent main portions of the whole, these articulations (joints) often thicker and sometimes sites of eventual abscission. |
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obterete |
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solid shape |
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Inversely terete. |
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hoary |
= canescent |
pubescence |
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Densely covered with gray, fine, relatively short, capillate trichomes. |
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stolon |
= runner |
STRUCTURE |
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A slender stem that grows horizontally upon or just beneath the ground surface, rooting at the nodes and giving rise to erect shoot segments at some nodes and/or at its apex. |
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ear-shaped |
= auriform |
solid shape |
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Resembling a mammalian outer ear. |
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conduplicate 2 |
= duplicate |
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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punctate 1 |
= dotted |
coloration |
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Having small, round, clear or colored spots that contrast with the ground color. See also puncticulate (small-dotted). |
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triquetrous |
= three-angled, trigonous; > deltoid, obdeltoid |
solid shape |
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Elongate with three sides that meet at acute or obtuse angles. |
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friable |
= brittle |
texture |
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Dry, firm and easily broken. |
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membranaceous |
= membranous |
texture |
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Extremely thin, pliable, and fairly tough; like animal membrane. See also chartaceous (papery, papyraceous), pergamentaceous (parchment-like). |
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…segmented |
? …cleft, …fid, …lobate, …lobed, …parted, …partite |
plane shape |
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Having the number of segments indicated by the prefix; as in ten-segmented. |
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segmented |
? cleft, dissected, divided, lobed, lobate, parted, partite |
solid shape |
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Having two or more major component sectors or peripheral protrusions that are delimited by concavities in the surface or margin and that are not proximally distinct from the remainder of the whole. The meanings of this term and its approximate synonyms sometimes have been supposed to differ according to the depth of the delimiting concavities relative to the midline or midpoint of the overall structure, and/or to the shape or proportions of the protusions or sectors; however, there has been little consistency in the applications of the various terms according to such distinctions, which are ones only of degree and are necessarily arbitrary in any case. In general usage, these terms differ only indistinctly and connotatively: cleft, lobed (or lobate), parted (or partite) and segmented tend to connote fewer protrusions or sectors; lobate usually connotes as well a generally rounded shape; dissected tends to connote more numerous sectors that are elongate and angular. See also cut (incised, lacerate, torn), laciniate (slashed). |
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parallelodromous |
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venation |
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Having two or more primary veins that run more or less parallel to one another over most of the laminar length and converge near the apex. |
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interpetiolar |
< nodal |
insertion |
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Upon the stem between the bases of opposite leaves. |
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supramedial |
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insertion |
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Just above the middle of the structure in point. |
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crusty |
= crustaceous |
texture |
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Thin, dry, hard, and brittle. |
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scabrellous |
= scabrellate, scabridulous |
relief |
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Minutely scabrous (rough, scabrate, scabrid, scabridous). See also spiculate, which is not clearly distinct in its application. |
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solid shape |
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CHARACTER |
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Overall three-dimensional form or aspect(s) thereof. Overlaps conceptually with architecture, arrangement, habit, insertion, orientation, position, relief, and texture (as to thickness). |
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staminodial |
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insertion |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the staminodes. |
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pistillodium pl. pistillodia |
= pistillode |
STRUCTURE |
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Any sterile structure deemed to represent a modified pistil, homology being inferred on the basis of structural similarity, ontogeny, and/or position; sometimes nectariferous, sometimes connate with others or adnate to other floral structures. |
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branchlet |
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STRUCTURE |
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A branch of the highest or ultimate order. |
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leaf-opposed |
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insertion |
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Nodal and directly opposite the leaf. |
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toothlet |
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STRUCTURE |
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A diminutive tooth (dens). See also sawtooth, sawtoothlet, scallop (crena), scalloplet (crenule). |
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floret |
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STRUCTURE |
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A very small, structurally specialized flower, especially when occurring in capitulum (head; Asteraceae), or in a spikelet (Poaceae), where it includes the immediately subtending bracts (lemma and palea). |
