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gummy |
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texture |
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Highly viscous and sticky, liquid or more or less deformably solid, sometimes more or less elastic. |
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pubescent 1 (broad sense) |
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pubescence |
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Bearing trichomes. This is one of the most ambiguous terms in the botanical lexicon; it should not be used unless its intended meaning is explicit. |
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glochidiate |
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pubescence |
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Bearing glochids (glochidia). |
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resinous 2 |
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texture |
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Having the consistency of resin. |
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intravaginal |
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position |
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Within the leaf sheath. |
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apetalous |
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architecture |
flower, perianth |
Lacking petals. |
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inflorescence 2 |
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STRUCTURE |
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The basic architectural unit of the flower-producing portion of a plant; comprising one or more flowers, their associated supporting axes (peduncles, main axes, branches and pedicels), if any, and the appendages thereto (bracts, bractlets or bracteoles or prophylls, involucres, involucels, and glumes), if any; delimited by the insertion or gradation of a single peduncle, peduncle cluster, pedicel, pedicel cluster, or sessile flower, as the case may be, directly upon or into some proximal vegetative structure not of one of these types; depending upon the type(s) of flowers included, may be bisexual (all flowers bisexual), staminate (all flowers staminate), pistillate (all flowers pistillate), sterile (all flowers sterile), or mixed (two or more types of flowers present); most appropriately described using nominative terms. |
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…angular 1 |
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arrangement |
bundle scars |
Forming a figure with the number of sides indicated by the prefix. |
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asymmetric(al) 1 |
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plane shape |
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Not divisible into essentially equal halves along any line or plane. |
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sepal |
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STRUCTURE |
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One of the one or more constituent members of a calyx; usually green and leaf-like, but sometimes with color and/or texture otherwise, sometimes petaloid; may be distinct or else connate with one or more others and/or may be free or else adnate to one or more other floral structures. |
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knee 2 |
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STRUCTURE |
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An emergent portion of an otherwise normally submerged secondary root of a wetland tree, resembling a bent human knee. |
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spathe |
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STRUCTURE |
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A usually relatively large, sometimes showy, foliose bract subtending and sometimes partially enclosing an inflorescence, esp. a spadicate one; in Liliidae (monocotyledons). |
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acropetal |
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development |
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Proceeding toward the apex, thus more advanced basally or proximally than apically or distally within a given frame of reference. |
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beard |
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STRUCTURE |
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A growth of relatively long, erect, flexible, capillary trichomes from one or more limited sectors of a structure's surface. |
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sinuate |
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margin |
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Having regular, curved, smoothly connected, alternating concavities and convexities. See also repand. |
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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. |
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manifestation |
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CHARACTER |
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Degree or nature of evidence when present within the context in point. |
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naked 2 |
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architecture |
bud |
Lacking enclosing protective scales, the outermost embryonic components exposed and not differing significantly from those within. See also perulate. |
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decussate |
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arrangement |
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Opposite with successive pairs radially oriented at right angles to one another, thus polystichous with four equidistant ranks. |
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obovoid |
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solid shape |
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Inversely ovoid (egg-shaped). |
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suffused |
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coloration |
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Having two or more hues, shades, and/or intensities intermingled, the contrasting components distinguishable only submacroscopically. |
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tetrad scar |
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FEATURE |
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A surficial ridge or angle resulting from coherence with other spores produced from the same mother cell. |
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discoid 2 |
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architecture |
capitulum (head) |
Bearing florets that all have actinomorphic corollas and that are all bisexual, or all functionally staminate, or all functionally pistillate; in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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palaceous |
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architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Having the petiole attached to the abaxial face of the blade at some point within the margin and adnate to it from there to the margin, thus peltate but with the distal portion of the petiole adnate to the blade, the whole shovel- or spade-like. |
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bursicle |
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STRUCTURE |
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A pouch- or flap-like protrusion from the stigma that encloses the caudicle of a pollinium. |
