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muriculate |
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relief |
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Finely muricate. |
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syncolporate |
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architecture |
pollen grain |
Syncolpate, each groove containing a pore. |
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commissure |
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FEATURE |
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Precisely, the joint or common boundary between the facing surfaces of two coherent or mutually appressed structures such as mericarps or stigmas, but traditionally (though imprecisely) applied to such a facing surface itself. |
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emergent |
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location |
plant, structure of aquatic plant |
Rising from beneath the water surface to a point above it. |
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odorless |
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odor |
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Lacking a distinct odor. |
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suprabracteal |
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insertion |
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Upon the axes, each directly above (distal to) and very near a point of bract insertion. |
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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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excurrent |
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architecture |
axis, laminar vein |
Branching laterally such that the initial axis retains its prominence over the length of the structure, the succesive orders of branches relatively smaller. See also deliquescent. |
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andromonoecious |
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reproduction |
taxon |
Having all plants with both bisexual flowers and staminate ones. |
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paniculate |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more panicles. |
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umbilicate |
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solid shape |
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Having a relatively small, transversely round, central depression in an essentially round broad face. |
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epiphytic |
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habit |
plant |
Physically supported in its entirety by another plant through all or the major part of its life. |
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tuberous 1 |
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architecture |
plant |
Bearing tubers. |
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perianth tube |
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STRUCTURE |
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A relatively narrow, fully connate portion of a syntepalous (gamotepalous) perianth proximal to a broader portion (limb) that comprises the distinct or connate distal portions of the tepals. |
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pollinarium pl. pollinaria |
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STRUCTURE |
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A pollinium together with, when present, its stipe and viscidium; the entire unit of pollinium dispersal. |
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V-form |
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arrangement |
bundle scars |
Disposed in an open-ended triangular pattern, like the letter V. |
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axis pl. axes |
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STRUCTURE |
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Any unitary and longitudinally continuous structure that bears laterally the subordinate portion(s), if any, of a plant root or shoot or any subdivision thereof and that represents the main line of structural development and/or symmetry distal to its origin, irrespective of the particular ontogenetic growth pattern involved. See also primary axis. |
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pseudomonadal |
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arrangement |
pollen |
Apparently monadal but each grain actually comprising an unseparated original tetrad in which the contiguous walls between component grains have dissolved. |
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ramal |
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position |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the stem branches. |
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rhytidomal |
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insertion |
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Within, upon, or otherwise directly associated with the bark. |
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integumentary |
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derivation |
aril |
Produced from or a modification of one or both seed integuments. |
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indument |
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STRUCTURE / SUBSTANCE |
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See indumentum. |
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bract 2 (strict sense) |
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STRUCTURE |
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Any primary or first-order lateral structure ontogenetically and anatomically analogous with, and therefore presumably homologous with, but relatively smaller than, a leaf, especially when subtending an inflorescence, other reproductive structure, or portion thereof; putatively, an evolutionarily reduced leaf. |
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isthmus |
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STRUCTURE |
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A narrower portion connecting two wider or broader portions of an inclusive structure. |
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biennial 1 |
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duration |
plant, stem |
Normally living two years; germinating or forming and growing vegetatively during one cycle of seasons, then reproducing sexually and dying during the following one. |
