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globose |
= globular, orbicular, rotund, spheric(al), spheroid(al) |
solid shape |
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Uniformly convex, circular in any median section and in outline when viewed from any angle; like a globe or sphere. |
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star-shaped 1 |
= stellate |
plane shape |
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Having four or more intersecting radiate lobes or portions, each distally slender; like the stylized outline of a star. |
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horned |
= corniculate |
apex |
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Bearing one or more horns (cornicula). |
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lacuna pl. lacunae |
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FEATURE |
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A hole or cavity; an empty space surrounded by tissue in two or three dimensions. |
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tuberculate |
= tuberculose, verrucose, warty |
relief |
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Covered with small, relatively broad, irregularly shaped, obtuse protrusions. |
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waxy 2 |
= ceraceous, cereous, waxy |
texture |
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Having the consistency of wax. |
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barbed 2 |
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solid shape |
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Having one or more relatively short, stiff, acutely inserted or bent, antrorse or retrorse, terminal and/or lateral hook-like appendages; esp. awns or setae. |
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midrib |
= midnerve, midvein; < costa, nerve, rib, vein |
STRUCTURE |
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A primary vein that runs longitudinally through the center of a leaf or other basically laminar structure. See also lateral vein, secondary vein, tertiary vein, veinlet. |
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canalicular |
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insertion |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the channel of a petiole or petiolule. |
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one-… |
= mono…, single-…, uni… |
prefix |
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Indicating presence of or constitution by one entity of the type denoted by the term's stem; as in one-carpelled, one-loculed, one-seeded. See also entries for particular terms beginning with this prefix whose meanings, at least in some applications, are more specific than usually indicated by such combination. |
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collar 2 |
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FEATURE |
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The junction between the sheath and blade of a leaf; esp. in Poaceae (Gramineae). |
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cucullate 2 |
= cuculliform, hood-shaped |
solid shape |
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Convex or compressed-convex overall with a distal peak or ridge, relatively thin-walled and essentially hollow with the interior open to one side below the distal portion; resembling a hood or cowl. See also galeate (galeiform, helmet-shaped), which overlaps conceptually. |
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double-… |
= bi…, twice… |
prefix |
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Indicating presence of two hierarchical orders of the type of entity or pattern denoted by the term's stem; as in double-pinnate, double-crenate. See also two-… (bi…, di…). |
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ring-porous |
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porosity |
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Heterogeneously porous, with macroscopically distinct concentric seasonal growth increments (rings), each with numerous large vessels toward the inside and fewer and smaller ones toward the outside. |
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farinaceous 1 |
= mealy; < crumbling, fatiscent |
texture |
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Of minute, relatively stout trichomes that are collectively meal- or flour-like and easily detached. See also farinose. |
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fusiform |
= spindle-shaped |
solid shape |
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Elongate, transversely round, broadest at the middle and regularly attenuate to either end. |
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spurred |
= calcarate |
base |
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Having a relatively slender protrusion resembling a spur. |
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heteromorphic |
> heteroblastic, heterocephalous, heterocladic, heterophyllous, heterostylous |
architecture |
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Occurring in two or more distinctly different forms within the taxon in point, at either the same or different times, in either the same or different plants. |
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sulcate |
= colpate, fossulate, furrowed, grooved, valleculate |
architecture |
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Having one or more elongate, relatively narrow and shallow depressions (sulci). |
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transverse 1 |
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dehiscence |
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More or less perpendicular to the central axis. |
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verticil |
= cycle, series, whorl |
STRUCTURE |
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A set of three or more lateral structures that are inserted around an axis at the same level. |
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medial |
= central, median |
insertion |
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At, upon, or closely ranged about the structural or symmetrical midpoint or axis. |
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bulla pl. bullae |
= blister, pustule |
FEATURE |
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A relatively coarse, rounded protrusion or convexity. See also papilla. |
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oblique 1 |
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base |
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Asymmetric about its longitudinal axis. |
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cladophyll |
= cladode, phylloclade |
STRUCTURE |
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A stem segment that functions as a leaf; often more or less compressed. |
