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…stamened |
= …androus |
architecture |
flower, floret, androecium |
Having the number of stamens indicated by the prefix; as in twelve-stamened. |
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prop-rooted |
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architecture |
plant |
Bearing and buttressed by prop roots. |
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eglandular |
= glandless |
architecture |
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Lacking glands. |
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runnering |
= sarmentose, stoloniferous |
architecture |
plant |
Producing runners (stolons), by means of which it propagates vegetatively. |
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…gynous |
= …pistillate, …pistilled |
architecture |
flower, gynoecium |
Having the number of pistils indicated by the prefix; as in monogynous, pentagynous, polygynous. |
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decompound |
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architecture |
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Comprising two or more orders of equivalent substructural entities; multiply compound. |
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polysepalous |
= aposepalous, chorisepalous, dialysepalous |
architecture |
flower, perianth, calyx |
Having two or more distinct sepals; having the sepals unfused. |
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spicate |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more spikes. |
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isopetalous |
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architecture |
flower, perianth, corolla |
Having the petals essentially alike in size and shape. |
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syncolpate |
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architecture |
pollen grain |
Having two or more fused or confluent surficial grooves (colpi). |
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eramous |
= unbranched |
architecture |
axis, laminar vein |
Not branching at any point. |
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rooted |
= radicate |
architecture |
plant |
Having one or more roots. |
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secund 1 |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Having the pedicels oriented such that the main bodies of all the flowers lie to one side of the bearing axis. |
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capsular |
|
architecture |
fruit |
Having the structure and texture of a capsule. |
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gaping |
= personate, ringent |
architecture |
corolla |
Bilabiate with the upper lip inwardly arcuate, the lower lip prominent and appressed to the upper at the level of the throat or junction of tube and limb, which is thus normally occluded but which gapes, resembling an open mouth, when the whole is compressed laterally. |
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epaleate |
= naked |
architecture |
receptacle (torus) |
Lacking paleae (pales, palets); in Asteraceae (Compositae) |
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valleculate |
= colpate, fossulate, furrowed, grooved, sulcate |
architecture |
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Having one or more relatively narrow and shallow longitudinal depressions; esp. fruits of Apiaceae (Umbelliferae). |
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unbranched 1 |
= eramous |
architecture |
axis, laminar vein |
Not branching at any point. |
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amplexicaul |
|
architecture |
foliaceous structure |
See amplexicaulous. |
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polytomous |
= flabelliramous |
architecture |
axis |
Branching by division of the apical meristem producing more than three coordinate but not necessarily equal derivatives from each division. |
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tuberous 1 |
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architecture |
plant |
Bearing tubers. |
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connate-perfoliate |
|
architecture |
opposite laminar structures |
Having the bases in each pair fused and together encircling the bearing axis. See also amplexicaulous, perfoliate. |
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strobiloid |
|
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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spiciform |
= spike-like |
architecture |
capitulescence, inflorescence |
Resembling a spike, but not strictly such. |
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isopolar |
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architecture |
pollen grain, spore |
Having evident polarity, the proximal and distal halves similar. |
