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sperm |
> antherozoid, spermatozoid |
STRUCTURE |
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A male gamete. |
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distal |
> apical |
insertion |
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Upon or associated with the portion of a structure farthest from its developmental origin. |
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distal |
> apical |
position |
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Upon or associated with the portion of a structure farthest from its developmental origin. |
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tree-form |
> arboreous, arborescent |
habit |
plant |
Having or developing the character of a tree. See also bushy, frutescent, fruticose, shrubby, subshrubby, suffrutescent, suffruticose, woody-clumping. |
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aril 1 (broad sense) |
> arillode, arillus |
STRUCTURE |
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An appendicular structure that wholly or partly envelops a seed and is produced from or a modification of the funicle, raphe, outer integument, or (in some Pinophyta) a subtending involucre; usually fleshy or pulpy, sometimes spongy or tufted-capillate, often brightly colored. |
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proximal |
> basal |
insertion |
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Upon or associated with the portion of a structure closest to its developmental origin. |
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proximal |
> basal |
position |
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Upon or associated with the portion of a structure closest to its developmental origin. |
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discolor(ous) |
> bicolor(ous) |
coloration |
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Having surfaces of different colors; esp. leaves with differently colored adaxial and abaxial surfaces. |
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bract 1 (broad sense) |
> bracteole, bractlet, phyllary, prophyll(um); >< scale |
STRUCTURE |
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Any 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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trichome |
> bristle, capillus, glochid, glochidium, hair, lepis, scale, seta, squama, squamella, squamule; >< cilium |
STRUCTURE |
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Any superficial, unicellular or multicellular structure arising entirely from an epidermis. Unlike other epidermal enations or coverings, trichomes are cellular structures. |
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shrubby |
> bushy, frutescent, fruticose |
habit |
plant |
Having or developing the character of a shrub. See also arboreous, arborescent, subshrubby, suffrutescent, suffruticose, tree-like, woody-clumping. |
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pruinose |
> caesious, glaucescent, glaucous; < ceraceous, cereous, waxen, waxy |
coating |
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Covered with a thin, opaque deposit (bloom) of macroscopically indistinguishable waxy particles that rubs off easily. |
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stem |
> cane, culm |
STRUCTURE |
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The entire axial system of a shoot, or a component, primary or higher-order (branch) axis of the shoot; differentiated anatomically and morphologically into nodes and internodes, from the former of which it branches exogenously and bears leaves, bracts, and/or inflorescences; usually growing above ground level, but sometimes structurally and functionally specialized and growing underground (e.g., rhizome, tuber) or upon the surface of the ground (e.g., stolon). Although sometimes phenotypically distinctive and often treated separately for descriptive purposes, the axial system of an inflorescence, excluding pedicels or parts of them in some cases, is properly stem in the above general sense. |
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cilium 1 pl. cilia |
> capillus, hair; >< trichome |
STRUCTURE |
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A hair-like trichome or other surficial process. |
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pistil |
> carpel |
STRUCTURE |
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Any simple or compound, discrete or histologically distinct, female (ovule-producing) floral structure, or any putatively homologous sterile structure; comprising an ovary and one or more stigmas borne either directly upon the ovary or upon one or more intervening styles. See also gynoecium. |
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achene var. akene |
> caryopsis, grain (not recommended) |
nominative |
fruit |
Small, dry, indehiscent, and usually one-seeded, with the pericarp thin to thick, sometimes osseous, and adnate to the seed; derived from a single, superior, simple or compound, unicarpellate ovary. Although in traditional use caryopsis (or grain) has been treated as a type separate from achene and applied to the fruit of a grass [Poaceae (Gramineae)], they do not differ in basic morphology. See also cypsela, diclesium. |
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helicoid-cymose |
> cincinnate |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more helicoid cymes. See also scorpioid-cymose. |
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aerial root |
> climbing root |
STRUCTURE |
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A root, adventitious or not, that originates and functions entirely above ground during the normal life cycle of the plant. |
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aerial-rooted |
> climbing-rooted |
architecture |
plant, structure |
Bearing aerial roots. |
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tuft |
> coma |
STRUCTURE |
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A distinct, compact, relatively dense, homogeneous aggregation of plants or constituent structures such as stems, branches, leaves, bracts or trichomes. |
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flattened |
> complanate, compressed, depressed, obcompressed |
solid shape |
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Convex overall but with one or more sides or ends distinctly deviating toward plane, as though pressed or squeezed there. |
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microsporophyll |
> cone scale |
STRUCTURE |
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A sporophyll that bears only microsporangia. |
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primary vein |
> costa, midnerve (not recommended), midrib, midvein, rib; >< lateral vein |
STRUCTURE |
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A strand belonging to the first order of vasculature in a leaf or other basically laminar structure. See also secondary vein, tertiary vein, veinlet. |
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diclinous |
> dioecious, monoecious |
reproduction |
taxon |
Having all flowers functionally unisexual. See also monoclinous (synoecious). |
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septum pl. septa |
> dissepiment, replum, trabecula |
STRUCTURE |
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A topologically and/or texturally distinct wall or partition that separates chambers or locules within an ovary, fruit or sporangium. |
