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pliant |
= flexible, pliable, supple |
texture |
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Able to bend over its length and/or breadth without structural disruption. |
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bulliform |
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solid shape |
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Resembling a blister; broad, relatively thin at the periphery, the lower surface approximately flat, the upper shallowly to strongly convex. |
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rostrate |
= beaked |
apex |
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Terminating in a relatively long, tapering, more or less rigid point. See also rostellate (small-beaked). |
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aseptate |
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architecture |
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Lacking internal walls or partitions (septae). |
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obterete |
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solid shape |
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Inversely terete. |
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hoary |
= canescent |
pubescence |
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Densely covered with gray, fine, relatively short, capillate trichomes. |
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stolon |
= runner |
STRUCTURE |
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A slender stem that grows horizontally upon or just beneath the ground surface, rooting at the nodes and giving rise to erect shoot segments at some nodes and/or at its apex. |
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dissected |
? cleft, divided, lobate, lobed, parted, partite, segmented |
solid shape |
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Having two or more component sectors or peripheral protrusions that are delimited by concavities in the surface or margin and that are not proximally distinct from the remainder of the whole. The meanings of this term and its approximate synonyms sometimes have been supposed to differ according to the depth of the delimiting concavities relative to the midline or midpoint of the overall structure, and/or to the shape or proportions of the protusions or sectors; however, there has been little consistency in the applications of the various terms according to such distinctions, which are ones only of degree and are necessarily arbitrary in any case. In general usage, these terms differ only indistinctly and connotatively: cleft, lobed (or lobate), parted (or partite) and segmented tend to connote fewer protrusions or sectors; lobate usually connotes as well a generally rounded shape; dissected tends to connote more numerous sectors that are elongate and angular. See also cut (incised, lacerate, torn), laciniate (slashed). |
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punctate 1 |
= dotted |
coloration |
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Having small, round, clear or colored spots that contrast with the ground color. See also puncticulate (small-dotted). |
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triquetrous |
= three-angled, trigonous; > deltoid, obdeltoid |
solid shape |
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Elongate with three sides that meet at acute or obtuse angles. |
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cereous 2 |
= ceraceous, waxen, waxy |
texture |
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Having the consistency of wax. |
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membranaceous |
= membranous |
texture |
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Extremely thin, pliable, and fairly tough; like animal membrane. See also chartaceous (papery, papyraceous), pergamentaceous (parchment-like). |
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…segmented |
? …cleft, …fid, …lobate, …lobed, …parted, …partite |
plane shape |
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Having the number of segments indicated by the prefix; as in ten-segmented. |
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gibbous |
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solid shape |
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Bulging unilaterally near the base. |
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crista pl. cristae |
= crest |
STRUCTURE |
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A laterally elongate, relatively thin, irregular or notched, apical protrusion. |
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internode |
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STRUCTURE |
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Any portion of a stem between two successive nodes. |
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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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bracteolate |
= bractleted |
architecture |
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Bearing or subtended by one or more bracteoles (bractlets, prophylls). |
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epidermal cell |
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STRUCTURE |
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Any of the unspecialized cells of an epidermis; i.e., any other than stomatal guard cells or cells directly associated with trichomes. While the latter specialized cells are also properly epidermal cells, they are treated separately for descriptive purposes and, for the sake of convenience, use of the general term is restricted to the unspecialized cells that constitute the bulk of an epidermis. |
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rhizoid |
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STRUCTURE |
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Any structure that is similar to a root in appearance and function but that is not a true root ontogenetically and anatomically, especially one produced from a gametophyte thallus. |
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non-porous |
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porosity |
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Lacking vessels, the tracheary elements limited to tracheids and, sometimes, fiber-tracheids. |
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scabrellate |
= scabrellous, scabridulous |
relief |
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Minutely scabrous (rough, scabrate, scabrid, scabridous). See also spiculate, which is not clearly distinct in its application. |
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staminode |
= staminodium |
STRUCTURE |
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Any sterile structure deemed to represent a modified stamen, homology being inferred on the basis of structural similarity, ontogeny, and/or position; sometimes petaloid, sometimes nectariferous, sometimes connate with others or adnate to other floral structures. |
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pistillode |
= pistillodium |
STRUCTURE |
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Any sterile structure deemed to represent a modified pistil, homology being inferred on the basis of structural similarity, ontogeny, and/or position; sometimes nectariferous, sometimes connate with others or adnate to other floral structures. |
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…-toothed 2 |
= …dentate |
margin |
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Having the number of orders of teeth (dentes) indicated by the prefix, one upon another; as in twice-toothed. See also …-sawtoothed (…serrate), …-scalloped (…crenate). |
