lamellate |
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apex |
laminar structure |
Having two small terminal plates of tissue closely parallel to one another and perpendicular to the plane of the lamina. |
glandular 2 |
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exudation |
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Anatomically distinct and producing and exuding a particular substance. |
winter annual |
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nominative |
plant |
Annual, germinating in autumn, overwintering in a vegetative state (usually as a rosette aboveground), reproducing sexually from early spring through summer, and dying promptly thereafter. See also summer annual. |
endophytic |
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habit |
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Growing within some portion of another, unrelated, living plant. |
involucrate 2 |
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architecture |
capitulum (head) |
Having an involucre. |
spinulose |
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architecture |
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Finely spinose. |
cuniculate |
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solid shape |
elongate structure |
Hollow over a significant part of its length, the interior open at the end of the hollow portion. |
episepalous |
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position |
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Upon the sepals, or partially adnate thereto and apparently arising therefrom. |
manifestation |
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CHARACTER |
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Degree or nature of evidence when present within the context in point. |
decurved |
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orientation |
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Curving abaxially. See also incurved. |
infrafoliar |
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position |
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Upon the stem directly below a leaf insertion. |
canalicular |
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position |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the channel of a petiole or petiolule. |
diffuse |
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architecture |
plant, stem |
Having branches remote and divergent to divaricate. |
explosive |
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dehiscence |
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Opening abruptly with almost instantaneous aperture formation and release of accumulated structural tensions, the contents thus forcibly expelled. |
second glume |
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STRUCTURE |
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The upper (distal) member of a pair of small bracts inserted at the base of a grass (Poaceae) spikelet. |
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. |
perisperm |
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STRUCTURE / SUBSTANCE |
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A genetically diploid (2n chromosomes) nutritive tissue in a seed; containing stored carbohydrate and/or oil utilized by the embryo prior to and especially upon germination; derived from the nucellus. See also endosperm (albumen). |
basiramous |
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architecture |
axis |
Branching at or near the base. See also basicauliramous. |
costule |
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STRUCTURE |
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A longitudinal primary vein in a diminutive laminar structure, such as the blade of a leaflet, pinna or pinnule; a diminutive costa (rib). |
asymmetric(al) 1 |
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architecture |
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Not divisible into essentially equal halves along any line or plane. |
villosulous |
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pubescence |
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Finely villose (shaggy, villous). |
barb 2 |
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STRUCTURE |
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A trichome terminated by one or two small, relatively short, stiff, sharp, acutely reflexed appendages. |
veined |
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architecture |
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Having one or more orders of evident vasculature. |
radical |
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insertion |
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Upon, arising from, or otherwise directly associated with the root. |
panicle |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
A compound (branched) raceme, the elongate main axis either determinate or indeterminate, its lateral branches racemose. |