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short-shoot |
= spur |
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A first- or higher-order woody stem branch having relatively unelongated internodes, thus proximate nodes, and limited duration of growth, usually branching little if at all; often a main locus of flower production; usually more or less perpendicular to the axis that bears it and resembling a spur projecting from it; sometimes becoming more or less spinose after elongation ceases; esp. in Rosaceae. |
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glaucous |
< ceraceous, cereous, pruinose, waxen, waxy |
coating |
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Whitish pruinose; covered with a thin, opaque, whitish deposit (bloom) of macroscopically indistinguishable waxy particles that rubs off easily. See also caesious, glaucescent. |
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staminodium pl. staminodia |
= staminode |
STRUCTURE |
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Any sterile structure deemed to represent a modified stamen, homology being inferred on the basis of structural similarity, ontogeny, and/or position; sometimes petaloid, sometimes nectariferous, sometimes connate with others or adnate to other floral structures. |
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horn |
= corniculum |
STRUCTURE |
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A straight or curved, slenderly conic or conoidal protrusion or terminal portion that resembles an animal horn. |
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sword-shaped 1 |
= ensate |
plane shape |
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Elongate and moderately slender, broadest at the base and gradually attenuate to a short, more strongly attenuate, acute apex; like the outline of the lateral face of a broadsword blade. |
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lacrimate |
= teardrop-shaped |
plane shape |
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Like the stylized lateral outline of a teardrop; broadest just below the middle, broadly rounded to the base, and acutely attenuate to the apex; like the stylized lateral outline of a teardrop. |
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tubercle |
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FEATURE |
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A small, rounded, knot-like swelling or wart-like protrusion. |
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waxen 2 |
= ceraceous, cereous, waxy |
texture |
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Having the consistency of wax. |
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barbate |
= bearded |
pubescence |
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Having one or more limited sectors bearing fairly long, erect, flexible, capillary trichomes. |
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microstrobilus |
= male cone |
STRUCTURE |
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A strobilus (cone) whose fertile organs are all microsporophylls. |
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campylodromous |
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venation |
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Having several primary and/or strongly developed secondary veins that diverge from a point or small area near the base of the blade and run thence ultimately toward the apex, recurving proximally, arcuate and converging distally, reaching the apex or not. |
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oleaginous 2 |
= greasy, oily, unctuous |
texture |
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Liquid or deformably solid, cohesive, and slippery to the touch. |
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coleorhiza |
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STRUCTURE |
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A sheath-like structure enclosing the radicle (embryonic root) in an embryo; esp. in Poaceae (Gramineae). |
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petal |
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STRUCTURE |
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One of the one or more constituent members of a corolla; colored and showy in many taxa, inconspicuous in size and/or color in others; 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. |
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cuboid |
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solid shape |
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Generally but not strictly cubic; more or less equilaterally six-sided, each side basically square. |
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pseudobulb |
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STRUCTURE |
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An enlarged internode of an aboveground stem, storing water and photosynthate, resembling a bulb; esp. in Orchidaceae. |
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dotted 1 |
= punctate |
coloration |
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Having small, round, clear or colored spots that contrast with the ground color. See also small-dotted (puncticulate). |
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rightward |
= dextrorse |
orientation |
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Directed to the right, relative to the direction of growth along an explicit or implicit axis of reference. See also leftward (sinistrorse). |
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fan-shaped |
= flabellate, flabelliform |
solid shape |
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Strongly compressed, broadest near the apex and attenuate to a narrow base, plaited longitudinally, the alternating folds radiating from the base, the whole basically triangular in broad aspect; like a partially expanded folding fan. |
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septate 1 |
> trabeculate |
architecture |
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Having one or more septa. |
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furrowed |
= colpate, fossulate, grooved, sulcate, valleculate |
architecture |
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Having one or more elongate, relatively narrow and shallow depressions (furrows). |
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spur 1 |
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STRUCTURE |
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A hollow protrusion from a calyx or corolla, often nectariferous. |
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irregular 2 |
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course |
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Deviating asymmetrically from a straight line. |
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translucent |
< hyaline, pellucid |
coloration |
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Transmitting light uniformly and diffusely. See also transparent. |
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verrucose |
= tuberculate, tuberculose, warty |
relief |
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Covered with small, relatively broad, irregularly shaped, obtuse protrusions. |
