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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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anchoring |
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habit |
trichome |
Serving as a means of attachment to some external support. |
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gregarious |
= clustered |
habit |
plants |
Growing in loose aggregations. See also cespitose. |
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levering |
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habit |
trichome |
Forming part of a pappus and reflexing at maturity, thus helping to loosen the individual fruit (cypsela) from the capitulum (head); in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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arboreous |
< tree-form |
habit |
plant |
Having the character of a tree. See also arborescent, bushy, frutescent, fruticose, subshrubby, suffrutescent, suffruticose, woody-clumping. |
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arborescent |
< tree-form |
habit |
plant |
Developing the character of a tree. See also arboreous, bushy, frutescent, fruticose, subshrubby, suffrutescent, suffruticose, woody-clumping. |
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repent |
= creeping |
habit |
axis |
Procumbent and rooting adventitiously at intervals along its length. |
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lianous |
< viny |
habit |
plant |
Having elongate, ligneous stems that are flexible at least initially and that climb upon trees and shrubs. |
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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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suffrutescent |
< subshrubby |
habit |
plant |
Becoming subshrubby. See also arboreous, arborescent, bushy, frutescent, fruticose, shrubby, suffruticose, woody-clumping. |
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trailing |
= procumbent, prostrate, supine |
habit |
axis |
Lying directly upon the substrate over its entire length. |
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matted |
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habit |
plants |
Growing in extensive, low, dense aggregations, sometimes with the stems of different plants intertwined. |
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urent |
= stinging |
habit |
trichome |
Setaceous or capillate and ejecting an irritating fluid when the apex is dislocated by external pressure, the ejection accomplished by release of existing internal fluid pressure or by contraction of the whole trichome. |
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day-blooming |
= diurnal |
habit |
flower |
Opening during the daytime. |
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night-blooming |
= nocturnal |
habit |
flower |
Opening during the nighttime. |
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suffruticose |
< subshrubby |
habit |
plant |
Having the character of a suffrutex (subshrub, undershrub). See also arboreous, arborescent, bushy, frutescent, fruticose, shrubby, suffrutescent, woody-clumping. |
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antisepalous |
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insertion |
equivalent floral structures |
Each inserted directly above or below a sepal. In place of this term, the phrase "opposite the sepals" is often used, but that contradicts the sense of opposite as otherwise employed (arrangement of lateral structures along an axis) and should be avoided. |
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canalicular |
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insertion |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the channel of a petiole or petiolule. |
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medial |
= central, median |
insertion |
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At, upon, or closely ranged about the structural or symmetrical midpoint or axis. |
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nodal |
> interpetiolar |
insertion |
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Upon or associated with the nodes. |
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collateral |
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insertion |
buds |
In pairs within or immediately straddling the leaf axils, the members of a pair lateral to one another. |
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median |
= central, medial |
insertion |
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At, upon, or closely ranged about the structural or symmetrical midpoint or axis. |
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vallecular |
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insertion |
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In or otherwise directly associated with the valleculae; esp. in fruits of Apiaceae (Umbelliferae). |
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gynobasic |
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insertion |
style |
Apparently arising from the ovary base. |
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petiolar |
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insertion |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the petioles. |
