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trioecious |
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reproduction |
taxon |
Having some flowers or spikelets functionally unisexual and some bisexual, some plants having only staminate or only pistillate types, other plants having only bisexual types. |
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elaminate |
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architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Lacking an expanded, more or less planate, distal portion (lamina or blade). |
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extrafloral |
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position |
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Outside and proximal to the flower; esp. nectaries. |
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pappose |
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architecture |
flower, fruit |
Bearing a pappus; esp. in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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equitant |
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arrangement |
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Alternate, distichous, basal, and congested, each conduplicate with its lateral edges overlapping and/or overlapped by those of the immediately adjacent one(s). |
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perisperm |
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STRUCTURE / SUBSTANCE |
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A genetically diploid (2n chromosomes) nutritive tissue in a seed; containing stored carbohydrate and/or oil utilized by the embryo prior to and especially upon germination; derived from the nucellus. See also endosperm (albumen). |
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valve |
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STRUCTURE |
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Any longitudinal segment of a fruit wall delimited by lines of dehiscence. |
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zoned |
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coloration |
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Having two or more fairly distinctly delineated areas of contrasting hues and/or intensities. |
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gummy |
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texture |
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Highly viscous and sticky, liquid or more or less deformably solid, sometimes more or less elastic. |
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adenopetalous 2 |
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derivation |
flower, perianth, corolla |
Having petals derived from glandular structures. |
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pubescent 1 (broad sense) |
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pubescence |
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Bearing trichomes. This is one of the most ambiguous terms in the botanical lexicon; it should not be used unless its intended meaning is explicit. |
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glochidiate |
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pubescence |
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Bearing glochids (glochidia). |
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resinous 2 |
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texture |
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Having the consistency of resin. |
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…angular 1 |
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arrangement |
bundle scars |
Forming a figure with the number of sides indicated by the prefix. |
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intravaginal |
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position |
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Within the leaf sheath. |
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inflorescence 2 |
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STRUCTURE |
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The basic architectural unit of the flower-producing portion of a plant; comprising one or more flowers, their associated supporting axes (peduncles, main axes, branches and pedicels), if any, and the appendages thereto (bracts, bractlets or bracteoles or prophylls, involucres, involucels, and glumes), if any; delimited by the insertion or gradation of a single peduncle, peduncle cluster, pedicel, pedicel cluster, or sessile flower, as the case may be, directly upon or into some proximal vegetative structure not of one of these types; depending upon the type(s) of flowers included, may be bisexual (all flowers bisexual), staminate (all flowers staminate), pistillate (all flowers pistillate), sterile (all flowers sterile), or mixed (two or more types of flowers present); most appropriately described using nominative terms. |
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arillate |
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architecture |
seed |
Having an aril. |
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sepal |
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STRUCTURE |
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One of the one or more constituent members of a calyx; usually green and leaf-like, but sometimes with color and/or texture otherwise, sometimes petaloid; may be distinct or else connate with one or more others and/or may be free or else adnate to one or more other floral structures. |
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coalescent |
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fusion |
equivalent and/or dissimilar structures |
Partially and irregularly coherent and/or adherent. |
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knee 2 |
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STRUCTURE |
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An emergent portion of an otherwise normally submerged secondary root of a wetland tree, resembling a bent human knee. |
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spathe |
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STRUCTURE |
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A usually relatively large, sometimes showy, foliose bract subtending and sometimes partially enclosing an inflorescence, esp. a spadicate one; in Liliidae (monocotyledons). |
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capsule |
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nominative |
fruit |
Dry, longitudinally or poricidally dehiscent, and derived from a compound ovary with one or more locules; containing one or more seeds. See also pyxis. |
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sinuate |
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margin |
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Having regular, curved, smoothly connected, alternating concavities and convexities. See also repand. |
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cuniculate |
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solid shape |
elongate structure |
Hollow over a significant part of its length, the interior open at the end of the hollow portion. |
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manifestation |
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CHARACTER |
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Degree or nature of evidence when present within the context in point. |
