muriculate |
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relief |
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Finely muricate. |
syncolporate |
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architecture |
pollen grain |
Syncolpate, each groove containing a pore. |
emergent |
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location |
plant, structure of aquatic plant |
Rising from beneath the water surface to a point above it. |
odorless |
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odor |
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Lacking a distinct odor. |
suprabracteal |
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insertion |
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Upon the axes, each directly above (distal to) and very near a point of bract insertion. |
tiller |
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STRUCTURE |
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An erect or ascending stem that branches from the base of another at or below the surface of the ground; esp. in Poaceae (Gramineae) and other monocotyledons (Liliidae). |
excurrent |
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architecture |
axis, laminar vein |
Branching laterally such that the initial axis retains its prominence over the length of the structure, the succesive orders of branches relatively smaller. See also deliquescent. |
paniculate |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more panicles. |
umbilicate |
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solid shape |
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Having a relatively small, transversely round, central depression in an essentially round broad face. |
epiphytic |
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habit |
plant |
Physically supported in its entirety by another plant through all or the major part of its life. |
tuberous 1 |
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architecture |
plant |
Bearing tubers. |
accessory 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. |
perianth tube |
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STRUCTURE |
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A relatively narrow, fully connate portion of a syntepalous (gamotepalous) perianth proximal to a broader portion (limb) that comprises the distinct or connate distal portions of the tepals. |
pollinarium pl. pollinaria |
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STRUCTURE |
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A pollinium together with, when present, its stipe and viscidium; the entire unit of pollinium dispersal. |
V-form |
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arrangement |
bundle scars |
Disposed in an open-ended triangular pattern, like the letter V. |
antrorse |
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orientation |
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Directed forward or upward, toward the distal end of the context of reference, parallel or at an acute angle to the bearing structure. |
adenopetalous 1 |
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architecture |
flower, perianth, corolla |
Having petals produced from glandular structures. |
pseudomonadal |
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arrangement |
pollen |
Apparently monadal but each grain actually comprising an unseparated original tetrad in which the contiguous walls between component grains have dissolved. |
angular |
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plane shape |
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Having sides that meet at acute or obtuse angles. |
asymmetric(al) 1 |
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architecture |
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Not divisible into essentially equal halves along any line or plane. |
ramal |
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position |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the stem branches. |
areolate |
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relief |
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Having numerous, small, irregularly disposed, transversely angular, shallow depressions or low protrusions overall. |
berry |
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nominative |
fruit |
Indehiscent, few- to many-seeded, and derived from a single, simple or compound ovary; fleshy throughout except for the seeds. See also hesperidium, pepo. |
rhytidomal |
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insertion |
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Within, upon, or otherwise directly associated with the bark. |
calyculate 1 |
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architecture |
capitulum (head) |
With the involucre subtended by a calyculus; in Asteraceae (Compositae). |