forked |
= furcate; > bifurcate |
apex |
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Having two or more terminal, antrorse branches or divisions arising from a common point or level, like the prongs of a fork. |
acuminate |
= concave-tapered |
apex |
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Gradually diminishing in width or diameter to a slender tip, the sides longitudinally concave. Corresponds with attenuate for base shape. |
concave-tapered 1 |
= acuminate |
apex |
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Gradually diminishing in width or diameter to a slender tip, the sides longitudinally concave. Corresponds with attenuate for base shape. |
bristled |
= aristate, awned |
apex |
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Bearing one or more bristles (aristae, awns, setae). |
acute |
= sharp |
apex |
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Sharply angular; regularly and more or less straightly attenuate to an angular tip, the sides intersecting at an angle of less than 90°. |
aristate 2 |
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apex |
pappus scale |
Terminating in one or more awn- or bristle-like appendages. |
abrupt |
= truncate |
apex |
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Having a distal boundary that is generally straight or plane and approximately perpendicular to the central axis. |
small-beaked |
= rostellate |
apex |
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Diminutively beaked (rostrate). |
blunt 1 |
= obtuse |
apex |
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Bluntly angular; having an angular tip whose generalized sides intersect at an angle of 90° or more. |
hamate |
= hooked, uncinate |
apex |
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Having a recurved terminal portion that resembles a hook. |
awned |
= aristate, bristled |
apex |
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Bearing one or more awns (aristae, bristles, setae). |
rounded |
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apex |
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Convex overall and more or less regularly curved. |
cuspidate |
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apex |
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Tapering gradually to a rigid tip composed of both vascular and laminar tissues. |
spinose 1 |
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apex |
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Terminating in a rigid, tapering, sharp continuation of the central primary vein. See also spinulose. |
mucronate |
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apex |
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Terminating abruptly in a short, hard point that is a continuation of vascular tissue. See also apiculate, mucronulate. |
oblique 1 |
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apex |
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Asymmetric about its longitudinal axis. |
cristate |
= crested |
apex |
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Having a laterally elongate, relatively thin, irregular or notched protrusion. |
hooked |
= hamate, uncinate |
apex |
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Having a recurved terminal portion that resembles a hook. |
mucronulate |
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apex |
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Finely mucronate. See also apiculate. |
caudate 1 |
= tailed |
apex |
laminar structure |
Terminating in a relatively long, flexible, narrowly acuminate tip composed of laminar tissue. |
corniculate |
= horned |
apex |
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Bearing one or more cornicula (horns). |
cone-shaped |
= conic(al) |
apex |
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Transversely round, essentially triangular in median longitudinal section, and broadest proximally. See also obconic(al). |
spinulose |
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apex |
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Finely spinose. |
piliferous |
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apex |
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Having a distinct, fine, weak, hair-like portion or protrusion. |
horned |
= corniculate |
apex |
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Bearing one or more horns (cornicula). |