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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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night-blooming |
= nocturnal |
habit |
flower |
Opening during the nighttime. |
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day-blooming |
= diurnal |
habit |
flower |
Opening during the daytime. |
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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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nocturnal |
= night-blooming |
habit |
flower |
Opening during the nighttime. |
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cespitose var. caespitose |
= tufted |
habit |
plants |
Growing in distinct, compact, relatively dense, turf-like aggregations. See also clustered (gregarious). |
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floating 1 |
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habit |
plant |
Buoyant and growing entirely at or near the surface of water, not rooted in any substrate. |
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deciduous 2 |
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habit |
plant |
Perennial and having all leaves separating and falling away during a particular portion of the yearly cycle, especially the autumn or the dry season, between growing seasons. Semantically, this term is properly applied only to the entity that falls, not to the structure that it separates and falls from; in traditional usage, though, the term has been applied to trees and other perennial plants that shed all their leaves at some time during the yearly cycle. |
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clambering |
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habit |
plant, axis |
Reclining upon and spreading across other plants or objects without the aid of special holding structures or growth patterns. |
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creeping |
= repent |
habit |
axis |
Procumbent and rooting adventitiously at intervals along its length. |
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shrubby |
> bushy, frutescent, fruticose |
habit |
plant |
Having or developing the character of a shrub. See also arboreous, arborescent, subshrubby, suffrutescent, suffruticose, tree-like, woody-clumping. |
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dovetailing |
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habit |
trichome |
Papillate and serving to hold a surface to the opposing one of an appressed structure by interlocking with others on the opposing surface; sometimes furcate. |
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evening-blooming |
= vespertine |
habit |
flower |
Opening during the evening. |
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evergreen |
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habit |
plant |
Perennial and bearing some viable leaves at all times during the yearly cycle. |
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decumbent |
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habit |
axis |
Reclining upon the substrate proximally, ascending to erect distally. |
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tree-form |
> arboreous, arborescent |
habit |
plant |
Having or developing the character of a tree. See also bushy, frutescent, fruticose, shrubby, subshrubby, suffrutescent, suffruticose, woody-clumping. |
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intercostal |
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insertion |
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Between the costae. |
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leaf-opposed |
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insertion |
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Nodal and directly opposite the leaf. |
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one-sided 3 |
= unilateral |
insertion |
|
Upon or arising from one side only of the bearing structure. |
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superaxillary |
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insertion |
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Internodal but close to and directly above the axil(s). |
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epigynous |
|
insertion |
perianth, calyx, corolla, androecium |
Having its proximal portion adnate to the full length of the gynoecium, the free portion thus arising from the apex of the gynoecium. See also hypogynous, perigynous. |
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abaxial |
= dorsal (not recommended) |
insertion |
|
On or pertaining to the side or portion of a lateral structure that faces (or would face) away from 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. |
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apical |
< distal |
insertion |
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At or very near the developmental end or tip (apex) of a structure. |
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superficial |
= surficial |
insertion |
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Directly upon the surface of the structure in point. |
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internodal |
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insertion |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the internodes. |
