arillate |
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architecture |
seed |
Having an aril. |
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. |
smooth 2 |
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relief |
bark |
Unfissured; not cracked or split to any significant degree. |
siliceous |
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texture |
epidermis, trichome |
Containing deposits of silica, thus hardened and abrasive. |
hirtellous |
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pubescence |
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Finely hirsute. |
sepal |
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STRUCTURE |
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One of the one or more constituent members of a calyx; usually green and leaf-like, but sometimes with color and/or texture otherwise, sometimes petaloid; may be distinct or else connate with one or more others and/or may be free or else adnate to one or more other floral structures. |
incurved |
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orientation |
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Curving adaxially. See also decurved. |
fixation |
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CHARACTER |
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Mode of attachment to a supporting structure. |
ochrea |
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STRUCTURE |
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See ocrea. |
craspedodromous, mixed- |
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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. |
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. |
petiolar |
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insertion |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the petioles. |
submergent |
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location |
structure of aquatic plant |
Descending from above the water surface to a point beneath it. |
perennial 1 |
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duration |
plant |
Normally living more than two years, with no definite limit to its life span. |
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. |
free |
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fusion |
dissimilar structure(s) |
Not fused with or joined to any other dissimilar structure(s). |
palmatifid |
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solid shape |
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Palmately lobate; having three or more lobes whose longitudinal axes radiate from a common point. |
laminate |
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architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Having an expanded, more or less planate, distal portion (lamina or blade). |
gynodioecious |
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reproduction |
taxon |
Having some plants with only bisexual flowers and some with only pistillate ones. |
cryptocotyloid |
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germination |
seed |
Having the cotyledon(s) remaining inside the seed coat. |
ligule 1 |
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STRUCTURE |
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A strap-shaped enation from or distal portion of a structure. |
ligule 2 |
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STRUCTURE |
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An adaxial, distal enation from a leaf sheath, especially in most grasses (Poaceae) and sedges (Cyperaceae); usually unitary and membranous, sometimes instead consisting of a row of ciliate processes. See also hastula. |
superaxillary |
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insertion |
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Internodal but close to and directly above the axil(s). |
prop-rooted |
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architecture |
plant |
Bearing and buttressed by prop roots. |
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. |