angled |
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solid shape |
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Having sides that meet at acute or obtuse angles. |
liguliflorous |
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architecture |
capitulum (head) |
Bearing florets that all are bisexual and have zygomorphic corollas; in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
septicidal |
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dehiscence |
fruit |
Splitting longitudinally into or through the suture(s) in the outer wall and, if present, through the septum(-a) between locules, the latter thus opened indirectly to the outside. |
motile |
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habit |
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Able to translocate by intrinsic means, as by flagellar propulsion. |
perennial 2 |
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nominative |
plant |
Of perennial duration. |
bifacial |
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architecture |
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Having two opposite broad surfaces that differ distinctly in appearance. |
circumcaulous |
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insertion |
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Upon and surrounding the stem. |
apiculum 2 pl. apicula |
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STRUCTURE |
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The apex of a connective, when prolonged above the union of the anthers. |
palmatifid |
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plane shape |
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Palmately lobate; having three or more lobes whose longitudinal axes radiate from a common point. |
pliestesial |
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duration |
plant |
Perennial and monocarpic, living several to many years before reproducing sexually, dying promptly thereafter. |
indusiate |
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architecture |
sorus |
Having an indusium. |
absent |
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presence |
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Not occurring within the context in point. |
epiphyllous |
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insertion |
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Upon the leaves, or partially adnate thereto and apparently arising therefrom. |
filament |
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STRUCTURE |
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The stalk, when present, of a stamen, clearly differentiated from and bearing at its summit an anther. |
epiphyllous |
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position |
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Upon the leaves, or partially adnate thereto and apparently arising therefrom. |
nut |
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nominative |
fruit |
Relatively large, indehiscent, one-loculed, one-seeded and with a thick, hard, sometimes osseous pericarp; derived from a single, simple or compound ovary. See also acorn (glans). |
plated |
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relief |
bark |
Fissured in a more or less regular, anastomosing pattern with distinct, relatively large, undisturbed sectors intervening, the latter ultimately falling away more or less intact after attaining considerable thickness. |
square |
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plane shape |
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Equilaterally rectangular. |
presence |
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CHARACTER |
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Occurrence within the context in point. |
barb 1 |
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STRUCTURE |
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Any relatively short, stiff, sharp, acutely inserted or bent, antrorse or retrorse, terminal or lateral appendage. |
…adelphous |
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architecture |
flower, androecium |
Having two or more distinct sets of stamens, the sets differing from one another in the arrangements, insertions, positions and/or morphologies of the included stamens, the number of sets indicated by the prefix, at least one set with two or more members; as in diadelphous, monadelphous, triadelphous. |
syncolpate |
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architecture |
pollen grain |
Having two or more fused or confluent surficial grooves (colpi). |
truncate 2 |
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base |
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Having a generalized proximal boundary that is more or less straight or plane and approximately perpendicular to the central axis. |
rachilla 1 var. rhachilla |
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STRUCTURE |
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A second- or higher-order axis of a compound leaf blade, bearing higher-order rachillae, leaflets, pinnules and/or tendrils. |
rhizoid |
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STRUCTURE |
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Any structure that is similar to a root in appearance and function but that is not a true root ontogenetically and anatomically, especially one produced from a gametophyte thallus. |