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parasitic |
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nutrition |
plant |
Heterotrophic and obtaining essential nourishment directly from other living organisms that derive no reciprocal benefit. |
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flush |
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prominence |
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Even with the surrounding surface, neither higher nor lower than its general level. |
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flanged |
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plane shape |
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Having a relatively broad circumferential rim or ridge that protrudes laterally. |
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prophyllar |
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insertion |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the prophylls (bracteoles, bractlets). |
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villosulous |
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pubescence |
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Finely villose (shaggy, villous). |
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porous |
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porosity |
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Having vessels present. |
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veined |
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architecture |
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Having one or more orders of evident vasculature. |
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rachis 2 var. rhachis |
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STRUCTURE |
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A main or first-order axis of an inflorescence. |
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gynoecium pl. gynoecia var. gynaecium |
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STRUCTURE |
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The pistil(s) of a single flower together with any ontogenetically equivalent or subordinate structures present, taken collectively; the total female (ovule-producing) structural complement of a single flower. It may include one to many pistils, each simple or compound. |
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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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cap cell |
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STRUCTURE |
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The single cell, or one of the several cells, forming the uppermost (distal) portion of an antheridial wall. |
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secondary root |
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STRUCTURE |
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Any root branch that originates directly or indirectly from a primary root. |
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involucrate 1 |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Subtended by an involucre. |
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chaff 2 |
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STRUCTURE |
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Collectively, the glumes, lemmata, and paleae of mature spikelets; in Poaceae (Gramineae). |
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infrapetiolar |
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insertion |
bud |
Axillary and surrounded by the petiole base at maturity. |
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sheathing 2 |
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base |
laminar structure |
Terete or involute and closely enclosing the supporting axis for some distance above the point of insertion. |
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catadromous |
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venation |
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Having the first lateral vein in each pinna or primary segment of the frond arise from its midvein on the side toward the base of the frond, the pinnule or secondary segment that it leads to often disproportionately larger than the next distal ones. |
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septate 2 |
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architecture |
trichome |
Unicellular to multicellular with transverse partitions (septa) that are common cell walls (intercellular) and/or intrusions from longitudinal cell walls (intracellular). |
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coherent |
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fusion |
equivalent structures |
Joined superficially, with no significant histological continuity. |
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loose 2 |
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texture |
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Soft overall, discontinuously and only weakly cohesive. |
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lineate 1 |
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coloration |
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Having very narrow, straight, clear or colored lines that contrast with the ground color. |
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sterigma pl. sterigmata |
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STRUCTURE |
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A portion of a lamina that is prolonged and adherent to the supporting axis beneath the point of vascular insertion. |
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convolute 2 |
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arrangement |
cotyledons |
Each rolled or folded inward longitudinally, one enveloping the other. |
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microgametophyte |
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PLANT |
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A gametophyte whose fertile organs (gametangia) are all antheridia. |
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cyathiate |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more cyathia. |
