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colporate |
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architecture |
pollen grain |
Having one or more elongate, relatively narrow and shallow depressions (colpi), each containing a pore. |
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parallelodromous |
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venation |
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Having two or more primary veins that run more or less parallel to one another over most of the laminar length and converge near the apex. |
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fruit |
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STRUCTURE |
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Any unitary seed-bearing structure of a flowering plant, consisting of the matured or ripened pistil(s) of one or more flowers along with any other floral or vegetative tissue(s) persisting adnate to them; characteristic of and unique to Magnoliophyta (Angiospermae). |
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racemose |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more racemes. |
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bulliform |
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solid shape |
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Resembling a blister; broad, relatively thin at the periphery, the lower surface approximately flat, the upper shallowly to strongly convex. |
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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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pepo |
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nominative |
fruit |
Like a berry but derived from a single, inferior, compound ovary, with accessory floral-tube tissue adnate to the pericarp, having a relatively thin, hard or leathery rind and a thicker, fleshy inner wall that surrounds a mass of seeds; esp. in Cucurbitaceae. |
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vasculature |
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STRUCTURE |
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The vascular strands of all orders (veins and veinlets) in a particular part or organ, regarded collectively; consisting of conducting tissues (xylem, phloem) and associated supporting and enclosing tissues (e.g., sclerenchyma, collenchyma). |
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gelatinous |
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texture |
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Jelly-like; soft, moist, continuously cohesive, texturally homogeneous, somewhat resilient, and easily cut. |
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mixed-craspedodromous |
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venation |
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Having a midvein that branches to either side along the length of the lamina, the secondary veins running thence toward the margin, some becoming indistinct before reaching it, others terminating there. |
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supervolute |
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vernation |
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Each with one side rolled adaxially inward from the margin and enveloped by the abaxially rolled opposite side. |
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corolla tube 2 |
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STRUCTURE |
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The portion of the corolla of a bisexual or staminate disc floret proximal to the level of filament insertion; in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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petiolar |
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position |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the petioles. |
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spadicate |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Generally spicate but with the flowers embedded in a thick, fleshy axis, the whole subtended and usually partially or wholly enveloped by a large bract (spathe). |
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epinastic |
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development |
laminar structure |
Having the adaxial surface differentiating and growing faster than the abaxial surface, thus, until maturity, development of the former more advanced than that of the latter at any given time and the structure as a whole revolute or recurved. |
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antrorse |
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orientation |
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Directed forward or upward, toward the distal end of the context of reference, parallel or at an acute angle to the bearing structure. |
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revolute 1 |
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margin |
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Rolled inward abaxially. |
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syncolporate |
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architecture |
pollen grain |
Syncolpate, each groove containing a pore. |
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laminar 1 |
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position |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the lamina (blade) of a foliaceous structure. |
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excurrent |
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architecture |
axis, laminar vein |
Branching laterally such that the initial axis retains its prominence over the length of the structure, the succesive orders of branches relatively smaller. See also deliquescent. |
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areolate |
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relief |
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Having numerous, small, irregularly disposed, transversely angular, shallow depressions or low protrusions overall. |
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haft |
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STRUCTURE |
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The narrow portion of a structure that is notably constricted. |
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legume |
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nominative |
fruit |
Dry, septicidal, one-loculed and derived from a single, superior, simple ovary; dehiscing along two sutures, one abaxial, one adaxial; in Fabaceae (Leguminosae). See also loment. |
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pollinarium pl. pollinaria |
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STRUCTURE |
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A pollinium together with, when present, its stipe and viscidium; the entire unit of pollinium dispersal. |
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obovoid |
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solid shape |
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Inversely ovoid (egg-shaped). |
