disc floret |
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A floret that has an actinomorphic corolla, is bisexual, functionally staminate, or functionally pistillate, and is borne in a radiate, discoid, disciform, or radiant capitulum (head) interior (distal) to any peripheral series of differing florets that may be present; in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
fertile frond |
< spore leaf, sporophyll |
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A frond that bears sporangia; in Polypodiophyta. See also sterile frond (trophophyll). |
sterile frond |
= trophophyll |
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A frond that does not bear sporangia; in Polypodiophyta. See also fertile frond. |
trophophyll |
= sterile frond |
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A frond that does not bear sporangia; in Polypodiophyta. See also fertile frond. |
flower |
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A functionally integrated, complex structure comprising sets of sporophytic and/or associated sterile structures disposed in standard sequence along a common axis; consisting of one or more constituent members each of, in ascending (proximal to distal) order of insertion, perianth (tepals, or else sepals and/or petals), androecium (stamens, staminodes and/or other associated structures), and/or gynoecium (pistils and/or other associated structures), the foregoing all borne laterally from the distal portion (receptacle) of the axis; depending upon the combination of structures present, may be bisexual, staminate only, pistillate only, or sterile; characteristic of and unique to the Magnoliophyta (Angiospermae). When a fertile androecium and gynoecium are both present a flower is termed perfect. When perfect and also with calyx and corolla both present, a flower is termed complete. Both terms are somewhat archaic and of limited descriptive value. |
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A fused androecium (connate stamens) closely surrounding but free from the gynoecium; esp. in Malvaceae. |
galea pl. galeae, galeas |
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A galeate (galeiform, helmet-shaped) sepal or petal in a zygomorphic calyx or corolla, differing markedly in shape from and sometimes partially enclosing the other sepals or petals. |
microgametophyte |
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A gametophyte whose fertile organs (gametangia) are all antheridia. |
megagametophyte |
> embryo sac |
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A gametophyte whose fertile organs (gametangia) are all archegonia. |
perisperm |
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A genetically diploid (2n chromosomes) nutritive tissue in a seed; containing stored carbohydrate and/or oil utilized by the embryo prior to and especially upon germination; derived from the nucellus. See also endosperm (albumen). |
albumen |
= endosperm |
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A genetically triploid (3n chromosomes) nutritive tissue in a seed; containing stored carbohydrate and/or oil utilized by the embryo prior to and especially upon germination; derived from fusion of the two polar nuclei (n + n chromosomes) of the embryo sac with a sperm nucleus from the pollen tube (n chromosomes). See also perisperm. |
endosperm |
= albumen |
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A genetically triploid (3n chromosomes) nutritive tissue in a seed; containing stored carbohydrate and/or oil utilized by the embryo prior to and especially upon germination; derived from fusion of the two polar nuclei (n + n chromosomes) of the embryo sac with a sperm nucleus from the pollen tube (n chromosomes). See also perisperm. |
tetrad |
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A group of four pollen grains originating from a single pollen mother cell. |
beard |
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A growth of relatively long, erect, flexible, capillary trichomes from one or more limited sectors of a structure's surface. |
cilium 1 pl. cilia |
> capillus, hair; >< trichome |
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A hair-like trichome or other surficial process. |
capillus pl. capilli |
= hair; > glochid, glochidium; < cilium, trichome |
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A hair-like trichome. |
hair |
= capillus; > glochid, glochidium; < cilium, trichome |
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A hair-like trichome. |
gum |
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A highly viscous and sticky exudate that becomes more or less elastic and/or deformably solid upon drying. Overlaps conceptually with latex. |
lacuna pl. lacunae |
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A hole or cavity; an empty space surrounded by tissue in two or three dimensions. |
spur 1 |
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A hollow protrusion from a calyx or corolla, often nectariferous. |
hood |
= cucullus |
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A hood-shaped structure or component, esp. in an inflorescence or flower. |
plantlet |
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A juvenile, complete plant produced asexually by budding, as from the leaf margin in some Kalanchoë (Crassulaceae); this term is usually applied only while such vegetatively produced offspring remain attached to the plant of origin. |
column foot |
= mentum |
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A lateral, often nectariferous protrusion from the proximal portion of a column, opposite the labellum, projecting in front of the rest of the flower; in Orchidaceae. |
mentum pl. menta |
= column foot |
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A lateral, often nectariferous protrusion from the proximal portion of a column, opposite the labellum, projecting in front of the rest of the flower; in Orchidaceae. |
crest |
= crista |
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A laterally elongate, relatively thin, irregular or notched, apical protrusion. |