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subapical |
= subterminal |
position |
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Lateral and just below the apex. |
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infructescence 1 |
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STRUCTURE |
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A mature (fruiting) inflorescence (static sense). |
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tholiform |
= dome-shaped |
solid shape |
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Convex overall, broadest at the base, and transversely more or less circular to elliptical throughout. |
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lidded |
= operculate |
architecture |
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Having a lid (operculum). |
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acrocaulous |
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position |
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At or very near the stem tip. |
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architecture |
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CHARACTER |
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Composite structural configuration as to type, orientation, symmetry, insertion, position, fusion, presence, number, relative size, shape, texture, differentiation, and/or derivation of components and features. Overlaps conceptually with habit. |
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lumen pl. lumina |
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FEATURE |
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A space enclosed by the wall(s) or membrane(s) of a structure. |
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cereous 2 |
= ceraceous, waxen, waxy |
texture |
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Having the consistency of wax. |
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papilliform |
= papillar(y) |
solid shape |
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Small, conoidal, and protruding from a larger structure; resembling a pimple; esp. trichomes. |
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bract 1 (broad sense) |
> bracteole, bractlet, phyllary, prophyll(um); >< scale |
STRUCTURE |
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Any lateral structure ontogenetically and anatomically analogous with, and therefore presumably homologous with, but relatively smaller than, a leaf, especially when subtending an inflorescence, other reproductive structure, or portion thereof; putatively, an evolutionarily reduced leaf. |
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nine-… |
= ennea… |
prefix |
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Indicating presence of or constitution by nine entities of the type denoted by the term's stem; as in nine-carpelled, nine-loculed, nine-tepaled. |
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papillose |
= papillate |
relief |
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Having small, conoidal protrusions overall; appearing pimply. |
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corky |
= suberous |
texture |
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Firm, relatively light, discontinuous but strongly cohesive, and resilient. |
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plumose |
= feather-shaped |
solid shape |
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Having a slender central axis bearing two opposite ranks of numerous, closely proximate, ascending, very slender branches or appendages; resembling the generalized form of a feather. |
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epicalyx pl. epicalyces |
= calyculus |
STRUCTURE |
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A whorl of bracts immediately subtending (beneath or outside) a calyx. |
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scabrous 2 |
= rough, scabrate, scabrid, scabridous |
relief |
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Having small, stout, stiff, more or less acute protrusions. |
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flexuose |
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course |
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See flexuous. |
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small-scalloped |
= crenulate |
margin |
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Finely scalloped (crenate). See also sawtoothed (serrate), small-sawtoothed (serrulate), small-toothed (denticulate), toothed (dentate). |
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gummy |
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texture |
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Highly viscous and sticky, liquid or more or less deformably solid, sometimes more or less elastic. |
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stoma 2 (strict sense) pl. stomata |
= stomatal pore |
FEATURE |
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The aperture between and regulated by the two guard cells of a stomate (stomatal apparatus). |
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tartareous |
= tartar-like |
relief |
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Rough and crumbling spontaneously, becoming erose. |
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xylem |
= wood |
STRUCTURE |
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The water-conducting and usually main supporting tissue of a plant or portion thereof, characterized by the presence of tracheary elements (tracheids and sometimes vessel elements); the lignified tissue of a plant or component structure, composed almost entirely of secondary tissue, i.e., that derived by secondary or lateral growth from a cambium in structures a season or more old. See also sapwood, heartwood. |
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multi… |
= many-…, pluri…, poly… |
prefix |
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Indicating presence of or constitution by a relatively large number of entities of the type denoted by the term's stem; as in multicarpellate, multicellular, multifacial, multiseriate. See also oligo… (few-…). |
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carpophore 2 |
= columella; < stalk |
STRUCTURE |
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Any pedestal-like prolongation of a floral receptacle extending beyond the distalmost level of perianth insertion and bearing the gynoecium. |
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pistillode |
= pistillodium |
STRUCTURE |
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Any sterile structure deemed to represent a modified pistil, homology being inferred on the basis of structural similarity, ontogeny, and/or position; sometimes nectariferous, sometimes connate with others or adnate to other floral structures. |
