apiculum 2 pl. apicula |
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STRUCTURE |
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The apex of a connective, when prolonged above the union of the anthers. |
fixation |
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CHARACTER |
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Mode of attachment to a supporting structure. |
…ciliate |
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architecture |
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Bearing the number of cilia indicated by the prefix. |
sculpture |
= relief |
CHARACTER |
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General topographic aspect of a surface. Overlaps conceptually with solid shape. |
pandurate |
= fiddle-shaped |
plane shape |
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Basically obovate but with deep, rounded sinuses opposite one another in the proximal half; like the frontal outline of an inverted fiddle body. |
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. |
acephalous 2 |
= headless |
solid shape |
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Not terminating in a head-like portion, esp. when one might be expected. |
infrafoliar |
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position |
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Upon the stem directly below a leaf insertion. |
barbed 2 |
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solid shape |
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Having one or more relatively short, stiff, acutely inserted or bent, antrorse or retrorse, terminal and/or lateral hook-like appendages; esp. awns or setae. |
superaxillary |
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insertion |
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Internodal but close to and directly above the axil(s). |
endophytic |
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habit |
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Growing within some portion of another, unrelated, living plant. |
reproduction |
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CHARACTER |
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Type, morphology, disposition, function and/or dissemination of reproductive structures. |
nerve |
= vein; > costa, midnerve , midrib, midvein, rib |
STRUCTURE |
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A strand belonging to any except the ultimate (least in diameter) order of vasculature in a leaf or other foliaceous structure. See also lateral vein, primary vein, secondary vein, tertiary vein, veinlet. |
conoidal |
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solid shape |
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Generally but not strictly conic. |
sinus pl. sinus, sinuses |
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FEATURE |
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The space, indentation, or invagination (or, for some descriptive purposes, the outline thereof) between and delimiting any two consecutive or adjacent lobes or teeth of a structure. |
hastate 2 |
= halberd-head-shaped |
plane shape |
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Basically triangular with an acute apex and two large, widely divergent basal lobes, each generally triangular and distally acute; like the stylized outline of the broad lateral face of a halberd head. |
phyllodium pl. phyllodia |
= phyllode |
STRUCTURE |
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A leaf deemed to consist entirely or almost entirely of tissues evolutionarily derived from the petiole, all or a distal portion of which has become laminar, the original blade reduced to the point of absence or vestigiality. |
lanceoloid |
= lancehead-shaped, lanciform |
solid shape |
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Considerably longer than broad, compressed or not, broadest near the base and somewhat concavely attenuate to the apex, the attenuation in all median longitudinal planes or else largely confined to one, depending upon the extent of compression, if any. See also oblanceoloid (oblanciform). |
bulbel |
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STRUCTURE |
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A comparatively small bulb branching laterally from a larger, currently primary one. |
three-… |
= tri… |
prefix |
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Indicating presence of or constitution by three entities of the type denoted by the term's stem; as in three-cleft, three-flowered, three-ranked. See also thrice… (tri…, triple…). |
felted |
> panniform, pannose |
pubescence |
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Of or bearing closely intertwined, capillate trichomes that form a dense, felt-like mat. |
scabrate |
= rough, scabrid, scabridous, scabrous |
relief |
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Having small, stout, stiff, more or less acute protrusions. |
osseous |
= bony |
texture |
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Very hard and rather brittle, like bone. |
cup-shaped |
= calyciform, cupulate |
solid shape |
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Truncate-globose with the distal margin more or less entire; like the bowl of a cup. |
imbricate(d) 1 |
= overlapping |
aestivation |
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Having members whorled or spirally inserted and overlapping one another, each overlapping or overlapped to either side, and also above or below if spirally arranged or in multiple whorls. |