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nectariferous |
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exudation |
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Producing and secreting nectar; when glands are nectariferous, they are usually indicated nominatively as nectaries. |
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rhytidomal |
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position |
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Within, upon, or otherwise directly associated with the bark. |
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taprooted |
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architecture |
plant |
Having a taproot. See also diffuse-rooted, fibrous-rooted. |
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cell 1 |
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STRUCTURE |
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Any of the basic structural/functional units that collectively or individually make up the various tissues of a plant; comprising, at least while physiologically active, a nucleus with included genetic material (chromosomes), a surrounding cytoplasm with included organelles (e.g., ribosomes, mitochondria, plastids), an enclosing membrane, and an exterior cellulosic wall. |
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plantlet |
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STRUCTURE |
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A juvenile, complete plant produced asexually by budding, as from the leaf margin in some Kalanchoë (Crassulaceae); this term is usually applied only while such vegetatively produced offspring remain attached to the plant of origin. |
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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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extrorse |
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dehiscence |
anther |
Opening outwardly, on the abaxial side. See also introrse, latrorse. |
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nutrition |
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CHARACTER |
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Mode of acquiring nutrients. |
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thermocleistogamous |
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reproduction |
flower |
Normally chasmogamous but facultatively cleistogamous during periods of lower-than-normal temperature. |
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…ciliate |
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architecture |
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Bearing the number of cilia indicated by the prefix. |
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pome |
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nominative |
fruit |
Indehiscent with accessory floral tube tissue adnate to the pericarp; derived from a single, inferior, compound ovary; the exterior thick and fleshy, the interior consisting of several locules bounded by cartilaginous tissue; in Rosaceae. |
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fibrous |
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texture |
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Having tough, woody or sclerotic strands distributed through a softer matrix. |
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obvolute 2 |
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vernation |
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Conduplicate with the lateral edges of each leaf alternately overlapping those of the oppositely oriented, distally next adjacent one. |
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basipetal |
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development |
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Proceeding toward the base, thus more advanced apically or distally than basally or proximally within a given frame of reference. |
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prothallus pl. prothalli |
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STRUCTURE |
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A very diminutive thallus that is reproductively mature and undergoes no further growth; in Polypodiophyta, Pinophyta. |
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coalescent |
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fusion |
equivalent and/or dissimilar structures |
Partially and irregularly coherent and/or adherent. |
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panicle |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
A compound (branched) raceme, the elongate main axis either determinate or indeterminate, its lateral branches racemose. |
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sepal |
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STRUCTURE |
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One of the one or more constituent members of a calyx; usually green and leaf-like, but sometimes with color and/or texture otherwise, sometimes petaloid; may be distinct or else connate with one or more others and/or may be free or else adnate to one or more other floral structures. |
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umbellate |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more umbels. |
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adventitious |
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derivation |
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Arising more or less unpredictably from an organ, tissue, or site that is an unusual, abnormal, or atypical origin for structures of its type. |
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follicle |
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nominative |
fruit |
Dry, longitudinally dehiscent, one-locular, one- to many-seeded and derived from a single, superior, simple ovary; dehiscing along a single adaxial suture. |
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mammose |
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solid shape |
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Having mammae. |
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complex |
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architecture |
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Comprising two or more basic structural entities, at least two of which are dissimilar. |
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inframedial |
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position |
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Slightly below the middle of the structure in point. |
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eccentric |
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position |
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Having a center or axis of symmetry not coincident with that of the context of reference. |
