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prolate |
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plane shape |
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Symmetrically elongate parallel to the developmental or polar axis. |
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fixed |
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fixation |
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Attached to the bearing structure in a manner allowing no significant rotation or declination in relation to it. |
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bark |
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STRUCTURE |
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The outermost portion of any shoot or root axis having secondary growth, consisting of all those tissues outside the vascular cambium; sometimes exhibiting zonation into inner, living bark and outer, dead bark; usually described only as to external appearance. |
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opaque |
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coloration |
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Not transmitting light. |
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scarious |
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texture |
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Very thin, dry, and not green. |
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stilt-rooted |
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architecture |
plant |
Bearing and partly supported by stilt roots. |
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hypogynous |
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insertion |
perianth, calyx, corolla, androecium |
Entirely free from the gynoecium or any floral cup, arising from a level proximal or lateral to the base of the gynoecium. See also epigynous, perigynous. |
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strobiloid |
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architecture |
flower |
Characterized by a general lack of adnation among the different sets of basic floral structures, any significant degree of fusion limited to connation within sets, thus with ovary(ies) superior and lacking a floral tube. |
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column 2 |
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STRUCTURE |
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A fused androecium (connate stamens) closely surrounding but free from the gynoecium; esp. in Malvaceae. |
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inflated |
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solid shape |
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Relatively thin-walled with an essentially empty interior largely enclosed by the walls, which are convex overall and appear taut, as though from internal pressure. See also swollen (turgid, tumid), which is not clearly distinct in its application. |
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duration |
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CHARACTER |
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Extent of lifetime, or persistence and physical state after maturation. |
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subtending |
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position |
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Arising from the axis just below and very near to the base of some other specified lateral structure. This term is meaningless if the structure that is subtended is not indicated. |
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conoidal |
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solid shape |
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Generally but not strictly conic. |
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bursicle |
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STRUCTURE |
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A pouch- or flap-like protrusion from the stigma that encloses the caudicle of a pollinium. |
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introrse |
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dehiscence |
anther |
Opening inwardly, on the adaxial side. See also extrorse, latrorse. |
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perennial 2 |
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nominative |
plant |
Of perennial duration. |
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velamen pl. velamina |
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STRUCTURE |
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A thin, often chartaceous (papery, papyraceous) or pergamentaceous (parchment-like), outermost tissue layer of an aerial root; esp. in Orchidaceae. |
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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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angular |
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plane shape |
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Having sides that meet at acute or obtuse angles. |
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germination 1 |
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CHARACTER |
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The process wherein a dormant embryo resumes active metabolism and growth, the primary root and shoot emerging from the seed coat, the young sporophyte thereupon entering the seedling stage. |
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monochasiate |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more simple or compound monochasia. See also cincinnate, cymose, cymulose, dichasiate, helicoid-cymose, scorpioid-cymose. |
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reclinate |
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vernation |
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Each with its blade oriented downward and parallel to the proximal portion of its distally recurved petiole. |
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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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knee-rooted |
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architecture |
plant |
Having knee roots. |
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phanerocotyloid |
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germination |
seed |
Having the cotyledon(s) emerging from the seed coat. |
