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papilla pl. papillae |
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FEATURE |
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A small, conoidal protrusion resembling a pimple. See also pustule (blister, bulla). |
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unbranched 2 |
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architecture |
laminar veinlet |
Not branching within the areole. |
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pilose |
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pubescence |
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Bearing relatively sparse, soft, slender, more or less erect capillate trichomes. See also pilosulous. |
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pilosulous |
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pubescence |
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Finely pilose. |
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fistulose |
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solid shape |
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Basically tubular with closed ends. |
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perigynous |
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insertion |
perianth, calyx, corolla, androecium |
Having its proximal portion adnate to part of the length of the gynoecium, or fused in a separate floral cup that extends part of the length of the gynoecium, the free distal portion thus arising at a level between the base and apex of the gynoecium. See also epigynous, hypogynous. |
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disarticulating |
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architecture |
axis |
Articulate(d) and with the main portions of the whole separating at the joints upon maturity or senescence. |
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polygamomonoecious |
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reproduction |
taxon |
Basically monoecious but with some or all plants bearing some bisexual flowers. |
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valvate 1 |
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aestivation |
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Whorled and with members not overlapping, adjacent members laterally contiguous at their margins. |
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planoconvex |
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solid shape |
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Relatively thin with opposite broad faces, one plane and one convex. |
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xerocleistogamous |
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reproduction |
flower |
Normally chasmogamous but facultatively cleistogamous during drier than normal periods. |
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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). |
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pterocaulous |
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architecture |
plant |
Having alate (winged) stems. |
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weak |
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texture |
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Very pliable and unresilient. |
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prominence |
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CHARACTER |
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Elevation or depression of a discrete feature relative to the surrounding surface. |
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rounded |
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apex |
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Convex overall and more or less regularly curved. |
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anchoring |
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habit |
trichome |
Serving as a means of attachment to some external support. |
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scorpioid-cymose |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more scorpioid cymes. See also cincinnate, helicoid-cymose. |
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apotropous |
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orientation |
ovule |
Anatropous but the whole recurved such that the raphe (adnate portion of the funiculus) faces the ovary wall (placenta) and the ovule is parallel to it, the micropyle facing the free basal portion of the funiculus. |
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sawtoothlet |
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STRUCTURE |
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A diminutive sawtooth. See also scallop (crena), scalloplet (crenule), tooth (dens), toothlet. |
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inferior 2 |
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position |
ovary |
Wholly enclosed by a floral tube casing, the distal portions of the perianth and/or androecium thus arising from its apex. |
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aciculate |
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coloration |
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Having fine, irregularly oriented, straight streaks of contrasting hue and/or intensity. |
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semielliptic |
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arrangement |
bundle scars |
Forming an incomplete ellipsis, like the letter U. |
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spadicate |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Generally spicate but with the flowers embedded in a thick, fleshy axis, the whole subtended and usually partially or wholly enveloped by a large bract (spathe). |
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ligule 1 |
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STRUCTURE |
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A strap-shaped enation from or distal portion of a structure. |
