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stigmatic |
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habit |
trichome |
Borne on the surface of the stigma and serving to hold pollen deposited there, variously shaped, often glandular, sometimes contractile. |
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exfoliating |
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relief |
bark |
Shallowly and distantly fissured, falling away in thin, relatively large patches or sheets. |
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biennial 2 |
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nominative |
plant |
Of biennial duration. |
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microphyllous |
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architecture |
plant |
Bearing microphylls. |
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ramal |
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insertion |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the stem branches. |
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pyramidal |
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solid shape |
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Transversely triangular or polygonal, broadest at the base and regularly attenuate to an angular apex, all faces essentially plane. |
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striped |
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coloration |
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Having one or more elongate, relatively narrow and, when multiple, more or less parallel, areas of contrasting hue and/or intensity. |
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fastigiate |
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arrangement |
branches |
Closely parallel to one another and to the axis of origin over most of their lengths. |
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decompound |
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architecture |
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Comprising two or more orders of equivalent substructural entities; multiply compound. |
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gynobasic |
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insertion |
style |
Apparently arising from the ovary base. |
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secondary root |
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STRUCTURE |
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Any root branch that originates directly or indirectly from a primary root. |
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continuous 3 |
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architecture |
rachilla, rachis |
Not disarticulating at maturity. |
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superposed 2 |
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position |
buds |
Axillary in pairs, one member of each pair directly above the other. |
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sheathing 2 |
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base |
laminar structure |
Terete or involute and closely enclosing the supporting axis for some distance above the point of insertion. |
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flush |
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prominence |
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Even with the surrounding surface, neither higher nor lower than its general level. |
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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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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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interrupted 1 |
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architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Compound with the leaflets alternately large and small. |
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polygamodioecious |
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reproduction |
taxon |
Basically dioecious but with some plants bearing some bisexual flowers. |
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equatorial ridge |
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FEATURE |
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A circumferential ring about a megaspore in the plane of its equator, raised above the remainder of the wall surface; in some heterosporous taxa of Polypodiophyta. |
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aseptate |
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architecture |
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Lacking internal walls or partitions (septae). |
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planoconcave |
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solid shape |
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Relatively thin with opposite broad faces, one plane and one concave. |
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perennial 2 |
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nominative |
plant |
Of perennial duration. |
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oblanceolate |
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plane shape |
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Inversely lanceolate (lancehead-shaped). |
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tertiary vein |
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STRUCTURE |
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A strand belonging to the third order of vasculature in a leaf or other basically laminar structure, except when that is the ultimate order (consisting of veinlets); branching from a primary or secondary vein. See also costa, lateral vein, primary vein, rib, secondary vein, veinlet. |
