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glomerulate |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more glomerules; esp. in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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multiciliate |
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architecture |
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Having several to many cilia. |
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synangium pl. synangia |
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STRUCTURE |
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A compound sporangium; an aggregation of coherent sporangia, the whole multilocular. |
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lamella pl. lamellae |
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STRUCTURE |
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A thin layer of tissue that forms a plate within tissue of lesser density or between areas of empty space. |
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architecture |
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CHARACTER |
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Composite structural configuration as to type, orientation, symmetry, insertion, position, fusion, presence, number, relative size, shape, texture, differentiation, and/or derivation of components and features. Overlaps conceptually with habit. |
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root 1 |
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STRUCTURE |
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Collectively, all those portions of a plant body that are anatomically distinct from the shoot, the component axes not differentiated into nodes and internodes, and branching endogenously. |
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terminal |
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position |
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Apical and with the same developmental axis as the whole, of which it is the distalmost portion or appendage. |
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asymmetric(al) 1 |
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architecture |
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Not divisible into essentially equal halves along any line or plane. |
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oblique 1 |
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apex |
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Asymmetric about its longitudinal axis. |
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tiller |
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STRUCTURE |
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An erect or ascending stem that branches from the base of another at or below the surface of the ground; esp. in Poaceae (Gramineae) and other monocotyledons (Liliidae). |
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present |
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presence |
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Occurring within the context in point. |
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barb 2 |
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STRUCTURE |
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A trichome terminated by one or two small, relatively short, stiff, sharp, acutely reflexed appendages. |
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hilum 2 pl. hila |
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FEATURE |
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The more or less central point within a starch grain of intracellular origin, about which the successive layers of starch were accreted more or less symmetrically. |
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trichotomocolpate |
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architecture |
pollen grain |
Having a triradiate surficial groove (colpus). |
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hygroscopic |
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architecture |
structure |
Increasing or decreasing in size according to the presence or absence of surrounding moisture, due to differential swelling or shrinking of component anatomical structures. |
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discoid 2 |
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architecture |
capitulum (head) |
Bearing florets that all have actinomorphic corollas and that are all bisexual, or all functionally staminate, or all functionally pistillate; in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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acrocaulous |
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position |
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At or very near the stem tip. |
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pseudoterminal |
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insertion |
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Only apparently terminal; originally subapical but displaced toward the apex by differential growth during development. |
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collateral |
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position |
buds |
In pairs within or immediately straddling the leaf axils, the members of a pair lateral to one another. |
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brachiate |
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architecture |
axis |
Having alternate, divaricate branches. |
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indehiscent |
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dehiscence |
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Not splitting or forming an aperture at maturity, the contents being released for dispersal only after decay, digestion, or erosion of the structure. |
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pappose |
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architecture |
flower, fruit |
Bearing a pappus; esp. in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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…seriate 1 |
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architecture |
trichome |
Multicellular with the number of longitudinal columns of superposed cells indicated by the prefix; as in biseriate, multiseriate, uniseriate. |
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free-central |
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placentation |
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Upon the free axial column of a compound, unilocular ovary. |
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subpetiolar |
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position |
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Just below the point of petiole insertion. |
