wrinkled |
= corrugate, rugose |
relief |
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Having irregular, narrow ridges or creases, the intervening areas flat to shallowly concave or convex, appearing overall as though crumpled and then spread out. See also rugulose. |
small-sawtoothed |
= serrulate |
margin |
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Finely sawtoothed (serrate). See also scalloped (crenate), small-scalloped (crenulate), small-toothed (denticulate), toothed (dentate). |
headless 2 |
= acephalous |
solid shape |
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Not terminating in a head-like portion, esp. when one might be expected. |
pinnatifid |
> pinnatisect; < pinnate |
solid shape |
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Pinnately divided. |
pinnatisect |
< pinnate, pinnatifid |
plane shape |
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Pinnately divided with the sinuses extending to the central axis. |
articulation |
= joint |
STRUCTURE |
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A distinct, relatively narrow zone of demarcation between adjacent main portions of an elongate structure, often thicker than the rest of the structure and sometimes a site of eventual abscission. |
fibrous root |
< diffuse root |
STRUCTURE |
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A diffuse root that includes a significant component of woody or sclerotic strands and is consequently tough and often wiry. |
scallop |
= crena |
FEATURE |
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A rounded, marginal convexity or concavity in a series of such that alternate regularly and are oriented more or less perpendicular to the generalized perimeter of a laminar structure. See also sawtooth, sawtoothlet, scalloplet (crenule), tooth (dens), toothlet. |
epiphyllous |
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position |
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Upon the leaves, or partially adnate thereto and apparently arising therefrom. |
staminal |
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position |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the stamens. |
subsidiary cell |
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STRUCTURE |
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One of the cytologically distinctive epidermal cells that are sometimes present in a stomate and that surround and are regularly oriented in relation to the guard cells. |
prophyllar |
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insertion |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the prophylls (bracteoles, bractlets). |
bisexual |
= hermaphroditic |
reproduction |
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Having functional reproductive structures of both sexes. See also perfect. |
main stem |
= primary stem; > bole, trunk |
STRUCTURE |
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The one, or any of the more than one, first-order stem(s), or first-order portion(s) of the collective stem, of a shoot. |
short-shoot |
= spur |
STRUCTURE |
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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. |
peripheral |
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insertion |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the outer surfaces or regions of a three-dimensional structure. Although use of this term in two-dimensional contexts is technically correct, traditionally the term marginal is preferred in such cases. |
laciniate |
= slashed; < cut, incised, lacerate, torn |
plane shape |
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Having relatively close, more or less straight lines of separation exending inward from the margin. See also cleft (dissected, divided, lobate, lobed, parted, partite, segmented). |
collar 1 |
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STRUCTURE |
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The free portion (if any) of a floral tube, distal to its casing and/or neck when one or both is/are present. |
receptacular bract |
= pale, palea, palet |
STRUCTURE |
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A small papery (chartaceous) to membranous bract borne on the compound receptacle (torus) of a capitulum (head) in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
exudation |
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CHARACTER |
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Discharged substance, as to type. |
capillate |
= capillary, hair-like |
solid shape |
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Finely filiform; like a hair. |
S-shaped 2 |
= sigmoid |
solid shape |
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Elongate with more or less constant width or diameter and curved more or less regularly first in one direction and then in the opposite direction, like the letter S. |
mushroom-shaped |
= fungiform |
solid shape |
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Having a cylindric base and a considerably broader, pulvinate distal portion; like the generalized form of a mushroom. |
waxy 2 |
= ceraceous, cereous, waxy |
texture |
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Having the consistency of wax. |
embryotega pl. embryotegae, embryotegas |
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STRUCTURE |
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A small, hardened, lid-like portion of the testa (seed coat) at the micropyle of some seeds, detaching at germination. |