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palate |
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STRUCTURE |
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The lower, prominent labium (lip) of a personate (gaping, ringent) corolla. |
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acropetal |
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development |
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Proceeding toward the apex, thus more advanced basally or proximally than apically or distally within a given frame of reference. |
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floret |
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STRUCTURE |
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A very small, structurally specialized flower, especially when occurring in capitulum (head; Asteraceae), or in a spikelet (Poaceae), where it includes the immediately subtending bracts (lemma and palea). |
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pappus scale |
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STRUCTURE |
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A pappus element that is more or less planate and relatively thin and broad; may terminate in one or more awn- or bristle-like appendages. |
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bract 2 (strict sense) |
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STRUCTURE |
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Any primary or first-order lateral structure ontogenetically and anatomically analogous with, and therefore presumably homologous with, but relatively smaller than, a leaf, especially when subtending an inflorescence, other reproductive structure, or portion thereof; putatively, an evolutionarily reduced leaf. |
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indument |
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STRUCTURE / SUBSTANCE |
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See indumentum. |
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drooping |
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orientation |
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Erect to salient (patent, porrect, spreading) proximally and curving downward distally. |
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raceme |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
An elongate, unbranched main axis bearing pedicellate flowers inserted singly along it. |
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siliceous |
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texture |
epidermis, trichome |
Containing deposits of silica, thus hardened and abrasive. |
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vascular |
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insertion |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the vasculature. |
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internode |
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STRUCTURE |
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Any portion of a stem between two successive nodes. |
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superposed 1 |
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arrangement |
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Approximate to congested, inserted directly above and below one another. |
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andromonoecious |
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reproduction |
taxon |
Having all plants with both bisexual flowers and staminate ones. |
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solid shape |
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CHARACTER |
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Overall three-dimensional form or aspect(s) thereof. Overlaps conceptually with architecture, arrangement, habit, insertion, orientation, position, relief, and texture (as to thickness). |
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campylotropous |
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orientation |
ovule |
Having the (reniform) ovule curved toward the ovary wall, the micropyle facing the wall, and the funiculus attached near the center of the concave side, the curvature and displacement of funicular insertion due to asymmetrical growth during ontogenesis. |
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reticulodromous |
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venation |
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Having a single median primary vein that branches to either side along the length of the lamina, the secondary veins running thence toward the margin, branching repeatedly, becoming less distinct, and yielding a dense higher-order reticulum near the margin. |
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antipetalous |
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position |
equivalent floral structures |
Each inserted directly above or below a petal. In place of this term, the phrase "opposite the petals" is often used, but that contradicts the sense of opposite as otherwise employed (arrangement of lateral structures along an axis) and should be avoided. |
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spinulose |
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apex |
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Finely spinose. |
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…ternate |
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architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Compound with the number of orders of leaflets indicated by the prefix, each order ternate; as in biternate, thrice-ternate. |
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arcuate 2 |
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plane shape |
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Elongate and more or less regularly curved from one end to the other, one side convex, the opposite concave. |
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terrestrial |
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habit |
plant |
Growing upon the ground, usually rooted in it. |
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chaff 1 |
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STRUCTURE |
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Collectively, the paleae (pales, palets) sometimes borne on the receptacle of a capitulum (head) in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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tomentulose |
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pubescence |
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Finely tomentose. |
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asymmetric(al) 2 |
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architecture |
flower |
Having the perianth members in whorls that are irregular and/or unequal in number of members. |
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heartwood |
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STRUCTURE |
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The senescent inner or central portion of the wood (xylem) of an older stem or root, its cells no longer living, in which conduction has ceased and primary reserve materials are no longer stored; often containing terminal metabolic products; usually darker in color than the living, conducting sapwood that encircles it. |
