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levering |
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habit |
trichome |
Forming part of a pappus and reflexing at maturity, thus helping to loosen the individual fruit (cypsela) from the capitulum (head); in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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stamen |
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STRUCTURE |
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A seed-plant organ that produces and releases pollen; usually comprising a stalk (filament) that bears a locular structure (anther) containing sporogenous tissue; however, the filament may be lacking and the anther sessile, or the stamen may be undifferentiated, the whole then consisting of microsporangia embedded in or borne upon the surface of a more or less planate body of sterile tissue; one of the constituent organs of a bisexual or a staminate flower; may be distinct or else connate with one or more others and/or may be free or else adnate with one or more other floral structures. |
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obvolute 1 |
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arrangement |
cotyledons |
Having each cotyledon folded inward longitudinally, the two facing one another with their edges overlapping alternately (each enveloping one side or the other). |
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basifixed |
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fixation |
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Attached at its base. |
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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. |
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dimidiate |
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solid shape |
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Halved, figuratively; bilaterally asymmetric, nearly or wholly lacking one side as implicitly compared with some corresponding bilaterally symmetric structure, real or imagined. |
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flesh |
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STRUCTURE |
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Tissue that is fairly firm and dense, juicy or at least moist, and easily cut. |
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location |
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CHARACTER |
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Position with respect to aspects of environmental context. |
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adnate |
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fusion |
dissimilar structure(s) |
Intimately fused with or to one or more other dissimilar structures, the connection(s) with strong histological continuity. See also connate. |
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follicetum pl. folliceta |
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STRUCTURE |
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An aggregate of follicles produced from a single flower with multiple simple pistils. |
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sub-basifixed |
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fixation |
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Attached just above its base. |
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adventitious |
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derivation |
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Arising more or less unpredictably from an organ, tissue, or site that is an unusual, abnormal, or atypical origin for structures of its type. |
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follicle |
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nominative |
fruit |
Dry, longitudinally dehiscent, one-locular, one- to many-seeded and derived from a single, superior, simple ovary; dehiscing along a single adaxial suture. |
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mammose |
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solid shape |
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Having mammae. |
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complex |
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architecture |
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Comprising two or more basic structural entities, at least two of which are dissimilar. |
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inframedial |
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position |
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Slightly below the middle of the structure in point. |
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eccentric |
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position |
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Having a center or axis of symmetry not coincident with that of the context of reference. |
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radicle |
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STRUCTURE |
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The primary root, or its primordium, in an embryo; the portion of an embryo axis that develops into the root. |
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contortuplicate 2 |
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vernation |
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Folded and twisted. |
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involute 1 |
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margin |
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Rolled adaxially. |
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pericolpate |
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architecture |
pollen grain |
Having more than three surficial grooves (colpi) oriented such that some or all of them cross meridians. |
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annual 2 |
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nominative |
plant |
Of annual duration. |
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glandular 1 |
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architecture |
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Having one or more glands. |
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…morphic |
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architecture |
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Existing within the taxon in the number of distinct structural states indicated by the prefix, the states segregated in different sets of plants or not; as in monomorphic, polymorphic, trimorphic. |
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suture |
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FEATURE |
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An evident line of ontogenetic union. |
