bostryx pl. bostryches |
= helicoid cyme |
nominative |
inflorescence |
A cyme in which each axial segment branches to only one side, and all branch to the same side, the whole thus appearing to have an elongate main axis that curves or coils toward its unbranched side. See also scorpioid cyme. |
head |
= capitulum |
nominative |
inflorescence |
Having crowded, sessile or subsessile, small flowers (florets) borne upon an expanded, distally plane or convex, sometimes paleate, compound receptacle (torus), often with a surrounding involucre, and sometimes a subtending calyculus; characteristic of Asteraceae (Compositae). |
glomerate |
= agglomerate |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more glomes. |
thyrsate |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more thyrses. |
glomerulate |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more glomerules; esp. in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
thyrse |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
An elongate, indeterminate main axis bearing numerous lateral branches, each the principal axis of a cymose subdivision. |
racemose |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more racemes. |
glomerule |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
A compact cluster of capitula (heads), sometimes subtended by an involucre; thus, a compound capitulum (head); esp. in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
headed 1 |
= capitate |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more capitula. |
…flowered |
= …floral |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Having the number of flowers indicated by the prefix; as in few-flowered, single-flowered, three-flowered. |
spicate |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more spikes. |
secund 1 |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Having the pedicels oriented such that the main bodies of all the flowers lie to one side of the bearing axis. |
corymb |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
An indeterminate, more or less condensed raceme with the pedicels progressively shorter toward the distal end, the flowers all borne at approximately the same level, the whole generally plane or convex at the top, the flowers maturing from the edge inward (i.e., the proximal or outer flowers maturing first). |
cincinnate |
< helicoid-cymose |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more cincinni. |
continuous 1 |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Having the flowers or branch units distributed evenly along the axis, with no significant interruption. |
trigamous |
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reproduction |
inflorescence |
Bearing flowers of three differing sexual constitutions; esp. in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
cincinnus pl. cincinni |
< helicoid cyme |
nominative |
inflorescence |
A tightly coiled helicoid cyme (bostryx) with the nodes approximate to congested and the pedicels very short or the flowers sessile. |
bundle (not recommended) |
= fascicle |
nominative |
inflorescence |
A cluster of pedicellate flowers that are inserted very close together and little if at all divergent from one another, the whole sessile or subsessile. |
dichasiate |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more simple or compound dichasia. See also cincinnate, cymose, cymulose, helicoid-cymose, monochasiate, scorpioid-cymose. |
monochasiate |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more simple or compound monochasia. See also cincinnate, cymose, cymulose, dichasiate, helicoid-cymose, scorpioid-cymose. |
spike |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
An elongate, determinate or usually indeterminate axis bearing sessile flowers inserted singly along it, unbranched or sometimes bearing lateral branches of the same nature. |
corymbose |
|
architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more corymbs. |
bundled 1 (not recommended) |
= fascicled, fasciculate |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more fascicles. |
rhipidiate |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more rhipidia. |
dichasium pl. dichasia |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
Determinate and falsely dichotomous with each axial segment bearing a sessile terminal flower and either a pair of opposite pedicellate lateral flowers or a pair of opposite lateral branches. See also cincinnus, cyme, cymule, helicoid cyme, monochasium, scorpioid cyme. |