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fringed |
= fimbriate |
margin |
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Regularly divided into slender, closely adjacent, more or less flexible segments, or having protrusions that give the appearance of such division. See also fine-fringed (fimbrillate). |
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spiny 2 |
= aculeate, spinose |
margin |
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Having slender, stiff, sharp projections oriented in the general plane of the structure. |
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heartwood |
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STRUCTURE |
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The senescent inner or central portion of the wood (xylem) of an older stem or root, its cells no longer living, in which conduction has ceased and primary reserve materials are no longer stored; often containing terminal metabolic products; usually darker in color than the living, conducting sapwood that encircles it. |
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subrotund |
= subglobose, suborbicular, subspheric(al), subspheroid(al) |
solid shape |
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Broadly ellipsoid with a length:width ratio closely approaching 1:1; almost rotund, slightly longer than broad. |
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interpetiolar |
< nodal |
insertion |
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Upon the stem between the bases of opposite leaves. |
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limp |
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texture |
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Lacking stiffness in in one or more dimensions, thus drooping or sagging where unsupported. |
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valve |
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STRUCTURE |
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Any longitudinal segment of a fruit wall delimited by lines of dehiscence. |
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aristate 1 |
= awned, bristled |
apex |
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Bearing one or more aristae (awns, bristles, setae). |
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main stem |
= primary stem; > bole, trunk |
STRUCTURE |
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The one, or any of the more than one, first-order stem(s), or first-order portion(s) of the collective stem, of a shoot. |
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branchlet |
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STRUCTURE |
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A branch of the highest or ultimate order. |
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notch |
= emargination |
FEATURE |
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A relatively small, acute sinus at the distal end of a laminar structure. |
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checkered 1 |
= tessellate |
coloration |
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Having a pattern of more or less regularly disposed square zones of contrasting hues and/or intensities. |
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…parted |
? …cleft, …fid, …lobate, …lobed, …partite, …segmented |
plane shape |
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Having the number of lobes, divisions or segments indicated by the prefix; as in five-parted. |
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coroniform |
= crown-shaped |
solid shape |
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Shortly and broadly tubular overall, circumferentially continuous at the base, distally so or not; like a monarch's crown. |
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receptacular |
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insertion |
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Upon, arising from, or otherwise directly associated with the receptacle. |
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epiphyllous |
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position |
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Upon the leaves, or partially adnate thereto and apparently arising therefrom. |
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habit |
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CHARACTER |
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General appearance and/or function, usually including explicit or implicit reference to one or more aspects of habitat or other features of the external environment; a logically imprecise traditional category of terms that overlaps conceptually with architecture, arrangement, duration, insertion, location, orientation, position, shape, and texture. |
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streaked 2 |
= striate; < lineate |
relief |
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Covered with very narrow and shallow, relatively long, more or less straight and parallel depressions. |
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induplicate |
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aestivation |
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Basically valvate but with each member involute, the lateral abaxial surfaces of adjacent members contiguous. |
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undulate |
= wavy |
margin |
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Having regular, curved, smoothly connected, alternating, wave-like deviations upward and downward from the general plane of the structure. |
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…lobate |
? …cleft, …fid, …lobed, …parted, …partite, …segmented |
solid shape |
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Having the number of lobes indicated by the prefix; as in bilobate. |
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caudex pl. caudices |
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STRUCTURE |
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The short, persistent, thickened, more or less erect, main stem of a perennial plant that otherwise has annual stems. |
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pallid |
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coloration |
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Relatively pale; not strongly colored. |
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connivent |
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arrangement |
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Converging and distally contiguous; esp. arcuate stamens with anthers contiguous. |
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placentation |
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CHARACTER |
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Disposition of the placenta(e) within an ovary. |
