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small-beaked |
= rostellate |
apex |
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Diminutively beaked (rostrate). |
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aristate 1 |
= awned, bristled |
apex |
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Bearing one or more aristae (awns, bristles, setae). |
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…dentate 1 |
= …-toothed |
apex |
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Generally truncate but with the number of antrorse, attenuate, distal lobes indicated by the prefix; as in tridentate. |
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oblique 1 |
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apex |
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Asymmetric about its longitudinal axis. |
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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. |
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retuse |
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apex |
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Round overall with an obtuse terminal sinus. |
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muticous |
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apex |
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Lacking a distinct terminal point (when one might be expected). |
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uncinate |
= hamate, hooked |
apex |
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Having a recurved terminal portion that resembles a hook. |
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crumpled |
= corrugate |
aestivation |
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Having members tightly and irregularly folded, the whole appearing as though wadded upon emergence. |
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valvate 1 |
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aestivation |
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Whorled and with members not overlapping, adjacent members laterally contiguous at their margins. |
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cochlear |
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aestivation |
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Imbricate with one member larger than and exterior to the others, parallel to one that is internal to all the others, strongly incurved, and enclosing the others. |
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plicate 1 |
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aestivation |
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Valvate with each member strongly infolded longitudinally. |
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induplicate |
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aestivation |
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Basically valvate but with each member involute, the lateral abaxial surfaces of adjacent members contiguous. |
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vexillate |
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aestivation |
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Having a larger member oriented more or less perpendicular to and folded about the others. |
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torsive |
= contortuplicate |
aestivation |
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Plicate and contorted. |
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corrugate 1 |
= crumpled |
aestivation |
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Having members tightly and irregularly folded, the whole appearing as though wadded upon emergence. |
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imbricate(d) 1 |
= overlapping |
aestivation |
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Having members whorled or spirally inserted and overlapping one another, each overlapping or overlapped to either side, and also above or below if spirally arranged or in multiple whorls. |
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quincunx |
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aestivation |
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Imbricate in one whorl of five members, two wholly exterior, two wholly interior, and one partially exterior and partially interior. |
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contorted 1 |
= convolute |
aestivation |
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Imbricate and whorled, each member in turn overlapped by that to one side and overlapping that to the other, the whole tightly rolled and appearing as though twisted. |
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contortuplicate 1 |
= torsive |
aestivation |
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Plicate and contorted. |
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overlapping 1 |
= imbricate(d) |
aestivation |
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Having members whorled or spirally inserted and overlapping one another, each overlapping or overlapped to either side, and also above or below if spirally arranged or in multiple whorls. |
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convolute 1 |
= contorted |
aestivation |
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Imbricate and whorled, each member in turn overlapped by that to one side and overlapping that to the other, the whole tightly rolled and appearing as though twisted. |
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carinal |
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aestivation |
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Having the petals of the keel (carina) enclosing the others. |
