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acute |
= sharp |
apex |
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Sharply angular; regularly and more or less straightly attenuate to an angular tip, the sides intersecting at an angle of less than 90°. |
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uncinate |
= hamate, hooked |
apex |
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Having a recurved terminal portion that resembles a hook. |
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bifurcate |
< forked, furcate |
apex |
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Having two terminal, antrorse branches or divisions arising from a common point or level, like the prongs of a fork. |
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muticous |
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apex |
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Lacking a distinct terminal point (when one might be expected). |
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emarginate |
= notched |
apex |
laminar structure |
Having a relatively small, acute, distal sinus. |
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apiculate |
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apex |
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Terminating abruptly in a short, slender, angular tip that is not notably harder or stiffer than the main body of the structure. See also mucronate, mucronulate. |
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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. |
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retuse |
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apex |
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Round overall with an obtuse terminal sinus. |
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abrupt |
= truncate |
apex |
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Having a distal boundary that is generally straight or plane and approximately perpendicular to the central axis. |
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caudate 1 |
= tailed |
apex |
laminar structure |
Terminating in a relatively long, flexible, narrowly acuminate tip composed of laminar tissue. |
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crested |
= cristate |
apex |
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Having a laterally elongate, relatively thin, irregular or notched protrusion. |
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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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aristate 2 |
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apex |
pappus scale |
Terminating in one or more awn- or bristle-like appendages. |
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notched |
= emarginate |
apex |
laminar structure |
Having a relatively small, acute, distal sinus. |
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cuspidate |
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apex |
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Tapering gradually to a rigid tip composed of both vascular and laminar tissues. |
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rostellate |
= small-beaked |
apex |
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Diminutively rostrate (beaked). |
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rhipidiate |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more rhipidia. |
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interrupted 2 |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Having one or more gaps in an otherwise uniform distribution of flowers or branch units along the main axis. |
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flower-bearing |
= floriferous |
architecture |
plant, structure |
Bearing flowers. |
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indusiate |
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architecture |
sorus |
Having an indusium. |
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apolar |
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architecture |
pollen grain, spore |
Lacking morphologically evident polarity. |
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…palmate |
= …digitate |
architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Compound with the number of orders of leaflets indicated by the prefix, each order palmate; as in bipalmate. |
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caulescent |
= stemmed |
architecture |
plant |
Having at maturity an evident, elongate, aboveground stem or stems from which branches, leaves, and/or reproductive axes arise at one or more levels along its length. |
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simple-lipped |
= haplocheilic |
architecture |
stomate |
Having subsidiary cells not derived from the primary stoma mother cell and thus not immediately related ontogenetically to the guard cells. |
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syncolpate |
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architecture |
pollen grain |
Having two or more fused or confluent surficial grooves (colpi). |
