canescent |
= hoary |
pubescence |
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Densely covered with gray, fine, relatively short, capillate trichomes. |
mealy 2 |
> farinaceous, farinose |
pubescence |
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Loose, dry, and disintegrating in finely granular pieces like meal or flour. |
glaucescent |
< ceraceous, cereous, pruinose, waxen, waxy |
coating |
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Becoming glaucous with age. See also caesious. |
bladder |
= ampulla |
STRUCTURE |
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A small, membranous, hollow, flask-shaped, insectivorous structure borne on a submerged leaf; esp. in Lentibulariaceae. |
netted 2 |
= reticulate |
coloration |
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Having a pattern of interconnected fine lines of contrasting hue and/or intensity. |
shoot 2 |
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STRUCTURE |
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A vascularized axis that is differentiated into nodes and internodes and that branches exogenously from the former, together with any non-axial structures borne from it. |
stipel |
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STRUCTURE |
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A stipular analogue subtending a leaflet. |
scrobiculate |
= fine-pitted, foveolate |
relief |
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Finely pitted (foveate). |
lenticular 1 |
= biconvex, lens-shaped |
plane shape |
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Elongate, narrow, broadest at the middle, attenuate to acute ends, the sides convex; like the outline of a double-convex lens viewed from its edge. |
cone-shaped |
= conic(al) |
solid shape |
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Transversely round, essentially triangular in median longitudinal section, and broadest proximally. See also obconic(al). |
falcate 1 |
= sickle-shaped |
plane shape |
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Elongate and laterally arcuate with the lateral edges more or less concentric, the degree of curvature decreasing distally or not; like the outline of the face of a sickle blade. |
distant |
= remote |
arrangement |
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Disposed relatively far from one another along the axis. |
balding |
= glabrescent |
pubescence |
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Becoming bald (glabrous, psilate) with age. |
pinnatisect |
< pinnate, pinnatifid |
solid shape |
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Pinnately divided with the sinuses extending to the central axis. |
planoconvex |
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solid shape |
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Relatively thin with opposite broad faces, one plane and one convex. |
cucullate 2 |
= cuculliform, hood-shaped |
solid shape |
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Convex or compressed-convex overall with a distal peak or ridge, relatively thin-walled and essentially hollow with the interior open to one side below the distal portion; resembling a hood or cowl. See also galeate (galeiform, helmet-shaped), which overlaps conceptually. |
palate |
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STRUCTURE |
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The lower, prominent labium (lip) of a personate (gaping, ringent) corolla. |
toothed |
= dentate |
margin |
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Having regularly spaced, angular convexities oriented more or less perpendicular to the generalized perimeter. See also small-toothed (denticulate); See also sawtoothed (serrate), scalloped (crenate), small-sawtoothed (serrulate), small-scalloped (crenulate). |
macrostrobilus pl. macrostrobili (not recommended) |
= female cone, megastrobilus |
STRUCTURE |
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A strobilus (cone) whose fertile organs are all megasporophylls. |
septal |
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position |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the septum or septa. |
sausage-shaped |
= botuliform |
solid shape |
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Arcuately cylindric with rounded ends. |
lanceolate |
= lancehead-shaped |
plane shape |
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Elongate, moderately narrow, broadest just above the base and gradually attenuate toward the apex, the sides more or less straight; like the outline of the broad lateral face of a lance head. See also oblanceolate. |
ventral (not recommended) |
= adaxial |
position |
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On or pertaining to the side or portion of a lateral structure that faces (or would face) toward the bearing axis when (or if) the axis of the lateral structure is (or were) oriented in the same general direction as the bearing axis. |
aseptate |
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architecture |
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Lacking internal walls or partitions (septae). |
peripheral |
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position |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the outer surfaces or regions of a three-dimensional structure. Although use of this term in two-dimensional contexts is technically correct, traditionally the term marginal is preferred in such cases. |