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exsert(ed) |
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position |
anther, style |
Protruding beyond the floral envelope. See also included. |
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tetrad |
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STRUCTURE |
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A group of four pollen grains originating from a single pollen mother cell. |
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polycarpic |
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reproduction |
plant |
Normally fruiting repeatedly prior to senescence. |
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hemiepiphytic |
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habit |
plant |
Partially epiphytic; rooted in the ground but with stems growing upon and supported mainly by other plants. |
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saprophytic |
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nutrition |
plant |
Heterotrophic and obtaining essential nourishment directly from the decomposing remains of other organisms. |
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deltate |
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plane shape |
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Equilaterally triangular, broadest at the base, and regularly attenuate to an angular apex. See also obdeltate. |
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prolate |
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solid shape |
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Symmetrically elongate parallel to the developmental or polar axis. |
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homogamous 1 |
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maturation |
bisexual flower |
Having the androecium and gynoecium become functionally mature concurrently. |
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diffuse-porous |
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porosity |
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Homogeneously porous, the vessels not differentially disposed by size or number. |
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flange |
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STRUCTURE |
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A relatively broad, circumferential rim or ridge that protrudes laterally. |
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prop-rooted |
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architecture |
plant |
Bearing and buttressed by prop roots. |
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pallid |
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coloration |
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Relatively pale; not strongly colored. |
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foliar |
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position |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the leaves. |
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pulvinate 1 |
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architecture |
inflorescence axis, petiole |
Having a pulvinus. |
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inflorescence 1 |
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architecture |
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Mode or progressive pattern of bearing flowers; most appropriately described using adjectival terms. |
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dwarfed |
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size |
plant |
Strongly reduced; unusually or unexpectedly very small throughout. |
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contiguous |
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arrangement |
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Touching one another. |
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involucel |
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STRUCTURE |
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One or more closely proximate whorls of bractlets (bracteoles, prophylls) immediately subtending (below or outside) a subordinate portion of an inflorescence that is subtended as a whole by an involucre, the bractlets often leaf-like, sometimes petaloid. |
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perfoliate |
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architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Having a sessile lamina (blade) that uninterruptedly encircles the bearing axis, which thus passes through it at some point within the margin. See also amplexicaulous, connate-perfoliate. |
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enation |
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STRUCTURE |
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A relatively small outgrowth from an otherwise regular boundary or surface of a larger structure. |
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gibbous |
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solid shape |
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Bulging unilaterally near the base. |
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monochasium pl. monochasia |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
Determinate and falsely dichotomous with each axial segment bearing a single, sessile terminal flower; presumably derived from a dichasium by loss of the lateral flowers. See also cincinnus, cyme, cymule, dichasium, helicoid cyme, scorpioid cyme. |
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rectangular |
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plane shape |
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Basically four-sided, the sides more or less straight, those of each opposing pair more or less parallel, the generalized angles between adjacent sides approximately 90°. |
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suprafoliar |
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insertion |
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Upon the stems, each directly above (distal to) and very near a point of leaf insertion. |
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viviparous |
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reproduction |
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Producing sexually or asexually generated offspring that begin growth and development while borne upon the parent plant. |
