spinose 1 |
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apex |
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Terminating in a rigid, tapering, sharp continuation of the central primary vein. See also spinulose. |
spinulose |
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apex |
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Finely spinose. |
acrid 1 |
= pungent |
apex |
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Terminating abruptly in a rigid, relatively short, sharp point composed of both vascular and laminar tissues. |
bristled |
= aristate, awned |
apex |
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Bearing one or more bristles (aristae, awns, setae). |
cuspidate |
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apex |
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Tapering gradually to a rigid tip composed of both vascular and laminar tissues. |
aristate 2 |
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apex |
pappus scale |
Terminating in one or more awn- or bristle-like appendages. |
retuse |
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apex |
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Round overall with an obtuse terminal sinus. |
cristate |
= crested |
apex |
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Having a laterally elongate, relatively thin, irregular or notched protrusion. |
muticous |
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apex |
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Lacking a distinct terminal point (when one might be expected). |
blunt 1 |
= obtuse |
apex |
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Bluntly angular; having an angular tip whose generalized sides intersect at an angle of 90° or more. |
awned |
= aristate, bristled |
apex |
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Bearing one or more awns (aristae, bristles, setae). |
rostellate |
= small-beaked |
apex |
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Diminutively rostrate (beaked). |
oblique 1 |
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apex |
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Asymmetric about its longitudinal axis. |
…dentate 1 |
= …-toothed |
apex |
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Generally truncate but with the number of antrorse, attenuate, distal lobes indicated by the prefix; as in tridentate. |
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. |
truncate 1 |
= abrupt |
apex |
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Having a distal boundary that is generally straight or plane and approximately perpendicular to the central axis. |
foliaceous |
= leaf-like |
architecture |
structure |
Resembling a leaf in shape, texture and color. |
…leafleted |
= …foliolate |
architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Compound with one order of the number of leaflets indicated by the prefix, arranged either pinnately or palmately; as in five-leafleted. See also conjugate, one-leafleted (single-leafleted, unifoliolate), unijugate. |
actinocytic |
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architecture |
stomate |
Having several subsidiary cells oriented radially to its center. |
umbel-like |
= umbelliform |
architecture |
capitulescence, inflorescence |
Resembling an umbel, but not strictly such. |
one-leafleted |
= single-leafleted, unifoliolate |
architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Structurally compound but with only one leaflet, whose nature (as a leaflet, not a leaf) is revealed by an evident articulation with the petiole, this condition presumably derived by evolutionary reduction from a multifoliolate precursor. |
stalked 1 |
= pedicellate |
architecture |
flower |
Having a pedicel. |
imperfect |
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architecture |
flower |
Having either stamens or pistils absent or non-functional, thus unisexual. |
macrophyllous (not recommended) |
= megaphyllous |
architecture |
plant |
Bearing megaphylls. |
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. |