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clasping |
= amplexicaulous |
architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Having two distinct basal lobes that partially or fully encircle the supporting axis. See also connate-perfoliate, perfoliate. |
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discoid 2 |
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architecture |
capitulum (head) |
Bearing florets that all have actinomorphic corollas and that are all bisexual, or all functionally staminate, or all functionally pistillate; in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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secund 2 |
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architecture |
stem |
Having the petioles oriented such that the main bodies of all the leaves lie to one side of the bearing stem. |
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spinescent |
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architecture |
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Becoming spinose. |
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…headed |
= …cephalous |
architecture |
capitulescence, inflorescence |
Having the number of heads (capitula) indicated by the prefix; as in three-headed, few-headed, 6-headed. |
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actinocytic |
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architecture |
stomate |
Having several subsidiary cells oriented radially to its center. |
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bracteolate |
= bractleted |
architecture |
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Bearing or subtended by one or more bracteoles (bractlets, prophylls). |
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dichasiiform |
= dichasium-like |
architecture |
capitulescence, inflorescence |
Resembling a dichasium, but not strictly such. |
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ranunculaceous |
= anomocytic |
architecture |
stomate |
Lacking subsidiary cells. |
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elliptic(al) 1 |
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arrangement |
bundle scars |
Forming an ellipse |
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seriate |
= cyclic, verticillate, whorled |
arrangement |
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Disposed along the axis in groups of three or more, the members of each group (cycle, series, verticil, whorl) inserted around the axis at the same level. |
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incumbent 1 |
= notorhizal |
arrangement |
cotyledons |
Adaxially contiguous and together oppositely parallel to the hypocotyl and radicle, the abaxial surface of one lying against them. |
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muriform |
= brickwork-like |
arrangement |
cells |
Disposed like bricks in a wall; in parallel rows, the members in each row overlapping the boundaries between members of the adjacent rows. |
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monadal |
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arrangement |
pollen |
Shed singly, or essentially so, only loosely and irregularly, if at all, coherent, each original tetrad having separated fully. |
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…seriate 2 |
= …cyclic, …verticillate, …whorled |
arrangement |
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Disposed in the number of series (cycles, verticils, whorls) indicated by the prefix; as in biseriate, 3-seriate. |
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alternate 1 |
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arrangement |
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Inserted singly along the axis, each at a different level and each diverging on a different radius than the ones next above and below. |
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fascicled 2 |
= bundled (not recommended), fasciculate |
arrangement |
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Disposed in one or more fascicles, the members of each inserted close together and only slightly if at all divergent from one another. |
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alternate 2 |
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arrangement |
structures in multiple whorls |
Having those of each whorl staggered radially in relation to those of the adjacent whorl(s). |
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bundled 2 (not recommended) |
= fascicled, fasciculate |
arrangement |
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Disposed in one or more fascicles, the members of each inserted close together and only slightly if at all divergent from one another. |
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subopposite |
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arrangement |
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Alternate but verging on opposite. |
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pollinial |
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arrangement |
pollen |
Polyadal with the grains of individual thecae (pollen sacs), or of fused thecae, compacted and forming tightly coherent masses (pollinia) that constitute the basic dispersal units, these sometimes distally attenuate to a sterile caudicle (translator arm), sometimes united by caudicles in groups of two or more, the caudicle(s) sometimes attached to a viscidium, either directly or through an intervening stipe; esp. in Asclepiadaceae, Orchidaceae. |
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conjugate |
= geminate, paired |
arrangement |
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Inserted by pairs, the members of each fused or not. |
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decussate |
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arrangement |
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Opposite with successive pairs radially oriented at right angles to one another, thus polystichous with four equidistant ranks. |
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valvate 2 |
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arrangement |
planate structures |
Not overlapping, adjacent members laterally contiguous at their margins. |
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solitary 1 |
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arrangement |
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Disposed singly, each remote from any others. |
