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fertile |
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reproduction |
plant, reproductive structure |
Producing functional spores, gametes, pollen, ovules, seeds, or other propagules. |
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herb |
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nominative |
plant |
Annual, biennial, or perennial with no woody (lignified) tissue in any part of the shoot; when persisting over more than one growing season, the parts of the shoot dying back seasonally. |
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obturbinate |
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solid shape |
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Inversely turbinate (top-shaped). See also pyriform (pear-shaped). |
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basicauliramous |
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architecture |
plant |
Having the stem(s) branching at or near the base. See also basiramous. |
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homosporous |
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reproduction |
taxon |
Producing only one type of spore, each spore giving rise to a gametophyte that bears gametangia of both sexual types. |
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scorpioid-cymose |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more scorpioid cymes. See also cincinnate, helicoid-cymose. |
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trulloid |
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solid shape |
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Elongate, basically square in transverse section, broadest below the middle, regularly attenuate to angular ends, all faces essentially plane. See also obtrulloid. |
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accessory cell |
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STRUCTURE |
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One of the cytologically distinctive epidermal cells that are sometimes present in a stomate and that surround and are regularly oriented in relation to the guard cells. |
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prophyllar |
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position |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the prophylls (bracteoles, bractlets). |
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cloying |
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odor |
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Sickeningly sweet. |
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birettaform |
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solid shape |
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Approximately square in cross section and shallowly convex at the top; like a biretta (Roman Catholic cleric's hat). |
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hysterophyllous |
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maturation |
non-foliar structure, esp. flower |
Maturing later than the leaves. |
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palmatifid |
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plane shape |
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Palmately lobate; having three or more lobes whose longitudinal axes radiate from a common point. |
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semielliptic |
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arrangement |
bundle scars |
Forming an incomplete ellipsis, like the letter U. |
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palmatifid |
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solid shape |
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Palmately lobate; having three or more lobes whose longitudinal axes radiate from a common point. |
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U-form |
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arrangement |
bundle scars |
Disposed in a truncated elliptical pattern, like the letter U. |
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adenopetalous 2 |
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derivation |
flower, perianth, corolla |
Having petals derived from glandular structures. |
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foliose 1 |
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architecture |
stem |
Bearing many leaves. |
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mamillate |
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relief |
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Bearing mamillae. |
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stylopodium pl. stylopodia |
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STRUCTURE |
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A discoid enlargement at the base of the styles; esp. in Apiaceae (Umbelliferae). |
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infrafoliar |
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insertion |
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Upon the stem directly below a leaf insertion. |
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amphimictic |
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reproduction |
taxon, plant |
Reproducing sexually. |
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radical |
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position |
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Upon, arising from, or otherwise directly associated with the root. |
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subvalvate |
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dehiscence |
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Incompletely or partly valvate. |
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caespitose |
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habit |
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See cespitose. |
