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banded |
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coloration |
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Broadly striped; having one or more elongate, relatively broad and, when multiple, more or less parallel, areas of contrasting hue and/or intensity. |
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gigantic |
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size |
plant |
Strongly enlarged; unusually or unexpectedly very large throughout. |
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suprafoliar |
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position |
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Upon the stems, each directly above (distal to) and very near a point of leaf insertion. |
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corymb |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
An indeterminate, more or less condensed raceme with the pedicels progressively shorter toward the distal end, the flowers all borne at approximately the same level, the whole generally plane or convex at the top, the flowers maturing from the edge inward (i.e., the proximal or outer flowers maturing first). |
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epirhizal |
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position |
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Upon or arising from the roots. |
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rhizophore |
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STRUCTURE |
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A stem branch that bears no leaves and from which roots eventually arise; esp. in Selaginellaceae. |
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woody-clumping |
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habit |
plant |
Having or developing the character of a woody clump. See also arboreous, arborescent, bushy, frutescent, fruticose, shrubby, subshrubby, suffrutescent, suffruticose, tree-like. |
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extent |
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CHARACTER |
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Reach of the septum or septa within the ovary or fruit, relative to the ovary wall or pericarp and its center. |
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bottom-rooted |
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habit |
plant |
Aquatic and rooted in the substrate beneath the water. |
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tetradynamous |
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architecture |
flower, androecium |
Diadelphous with four stamens in one set and two in the other. See also didynamous. |
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cyathium pl. cyathia |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
Resembling a single flower, the unbranched axis very short with a terminal pistillate flower and several lateral staminate flowers, the whole subtended and to some degree enclosed by a cupulate envelope of bracts, the flowers diminutive and presumed to be evolutionarily reduced; characteristic of Euphorbia. |
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polygamous |
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reproduction |
taxon |
Having both bisexual and unisexual flowers, borne on the same or on different plants. |
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fenestrate |
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architecture |
pollen grain |
Having more or less isodiametric, regularly disposed lacunae. |
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bulbel |
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STRUCTURE |
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A comparatively small bulb branching laterally from a larger, currently primary one. |
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obtrulloid |
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solid shape |
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Inversely trulloid. |
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androecium pl. androecia |
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STRUCTURE |
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The stamen(s), staminode(s), if any, and their ontogenetically associated structure(s), if any, of a single flower, taken collectively. |
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calyx pl. calyces |
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STRUCTURE |
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Collectively, the sepals of a flower, whether distinct or connate; the outer or proximal envelope of a differentiated perianth, whether the other envelope (corolla) is also actually present or is deemed to be secondarily absent due to evolutionary reduction. |
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opposite 2 |
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arrangement |
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Having the members of each whorl inserted directly above and/or below those of the next adjacent whorl(s). See also antipetalous, antisepalous. |
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scorpioid cyme |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
A cyme in which each axial segment branches to only one side, the successive segments branching alternately to either side, the whole appearing to have a continuous, elongate, straight to zig-zag main axis. See also cincinnus, helicoid cyme (bostryx). |
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flanged |
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solid 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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stipel |
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STRUCTURE |
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A stipular analogue subtending a leaflet. |
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hysteranthous |
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maturation |
non-floral structure, esp. leaf |
Maturing later than the flowers. |
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semicraspedodromous |
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venation |
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Having a single median primary vein that branches to either side along the length of the lamina, each secondary vein running thence toward and bifurcate near the margin, one branch terminating at the margin, the other upwardly arcuate and merging with the superadjacent secondary vein, thus forming one of a series of marginal loops. |
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divergent |
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arrangement |
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Directed at individually different angles from a common point or relatively limited zone of origin, thus farther apart distally than proximally. |
