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climbing-rooted |
< aerial-rooted |
architecture |
plant, structure |
Bearing climbing roots. |
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vegetative |
< apomictic, asexual |
reproduction |
plant |
Producing new plants asexually by proliferation or fragmentation of sterile tissue, without formation of embryos (or seeds). The logical antecedent of this term is "reproduction," not the taxon in point or "plants," and syntax should be governed accordingly. Whenever this mode of reproduction is noted, the relevant propagative structures should be identified. |
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apogamous |
< apomictic, asexual |
reproduction |
taxon, plant |
Producing new sporophytes from the gametophytes asexually, without intervening fertilization (or gametes). |
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aposporous |
< apomictic, asexual |
reproduction |
taxon, plant |
Producing new gametophytes from the sporophytes asexually, without intervening meiosis (or spores). |
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agamospermous |
< apomictic, asexual |
reproduction |
taxon, plant |
Producing viable embryos (in seeds) asexually. |
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arillode |
< aril (broad sense) |
STRUCTURE |
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A "false" aril; an appendicular structure that wholly or partly envelops a seed and is produced from or a modification of the outer integument or (in some Pinophyta) a subtending involucre, but not from the funicle or raphe, and thus is not ontogenetically derived from the placenta; usually fleshy or pulpy, sometimes spongy or tufted-capillate, often brightly colored. |
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geitonogamous |
< autogamous, automictic, idiogamous, self-fertilizing, selfing |
reproduction |
taxon |
Having fertilization regularly involving gametes derived from different flowers on the same plant. |
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scale 1 |
< bract |
STRUCTURE |
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A basically dry, more or less appressed, diminutive bract. The choice of term as between the more general bract and the more restricted scale is sometimes problematic and, when so, often is dictated by custom according to the structure and taxon involved. |
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culm |
< cane, stem |
STRUCTURE |
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A stem of a sedge (Cyperaceae) or grass (Poaceae), usually hollow. Use of this term or cane instead of stem is a matter of tradition and preference, not of descriptive precision or necessity. |
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insectivorous |
< carnivorous |
nutrition |
plant, structure |
Capturing insects, digesting their tissues by means of exoenzymes secreted by specialized cells or tissues, and assimilating the digested substances as nourishment, especially for nitrogen. |
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caesious |
< ceraceous, cereous, pruinose, waxen, waxy |
coating |
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Greenish pruinose; covered with a thin, opaque, greenish deposit (bloom) of macroscopically indistinguishable waxy particles that rubs off easily. See also glaucescent, glaucous. |
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glaucescent |
< ceraceous, cereous, pruinose, waxen, waxy |
coating |
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Becoming glaucous with age. See also caesious. |
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glaucous |
< ceraceous, cereous, pruinose, waxen, waxy |
coating |
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Whitish pruinose; covered with a thin, opaque, whitish deposit (bloom) of macroscopically indistinguishable waxy particles that rubs off easily. See also caesious, glaucescent. |
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ovuliferous scale |
< cone scale, macrosporophyll (not recommended), megasporophyll |
STRUCTURE |
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A fertile scale in a female cone (megastrobilus), bearing one or two naked ovules, and subsequently seed(s), subtended by and borne closely upon a sterile, fleshy or woody scale sometimes termed a bract scale; in Pinophyta. |
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showy |
< conspicuous |
manifestation |
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Prominently evident and attractive due to size, shape and/or coloration. |
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gynostegium pl. gynostegia |
< corona |
STRUCTURE |
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An androecial corona, typically consisting of distinct hood- and/or horn-shaped enations that rise above the anthers; esp. in Asclepiadaceae. |
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lanuginose |
< cottony |
pubescence |
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Bearing relatively long and fine, intertwined, somewhat matted, capillate trichomes. |
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cane |
< culm, stem |
STRUCTURE |
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A woody, aboveground culm. Use of this term or culm instead of stem is a matter of tradition and preference, not of descriptive precision or necessity. |
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protogynous |
< dichogamous |
maturation |
bisexual flower |
Having the gynoecium become functionally mature before the androecium. |
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monoecious |
< diclinous |
reproduction |
taxon |
Having all flowers or spikelets functionally unisexual, and all plants having both staminate and pistillate types. See also dioecious. |
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dioecious |
< diclinous |
reproduction |
taxon |
Having all flowers or spikelets functionally unisexual, each plant having only staminate or only pistillate types. See also monoecious. |
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fibrous root |
< diffuse root |
STRUCTURE |
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A diffuse root that includes a significant component of woody or sclerotic strands and is consequently tough and often wiry. |
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fibrous-rooted |
< diffuse-rooted |
architecture |
plant |
Diffuse-rooted with fibrous roots. See also taprooted. |
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bicolor(ous) |
< discolor(ous) |
coloration |
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Having two surfaces of different colors; esp. leaves with differently colored adaxial and abaxial surfaces. |
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replum pl. repla |
< dissepiment, septum |
STRUCTURE |
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The persistent wall or partition that separates the two locules of a silicle or silique. |
