stephanocolporate |
|
architecture |
pollen grain |
Stephanocolpate, each groove containing a pore. |
stephanoporate |
|
architecture |
pollen grain |
Having more than three pores disposed equatorially. |
pericolpate |
|
architecture |
pollen grain |
Having more than three surficial grooves (colpi) oriented such that some or all of them cross meridians. |
pericolporate |
|
architecture |
pollen grain |
Pericolpate, each groove containing a pore. |
polyplicate |
|
architecture |
pollen grain |
Inaperturate with meridional folds, thus appearing longitudinally wrinkled. |
vesiculate |
= alate, saccate, winged |
architecture |
pollen grain |
Having lateral lobes or enations resembling sacs or somewhat inflated wings. |
exalate 2 |
= wingless |
architecture |
pollen grain |
Lacking lateral lobes or enations that resemble sacs or somewhat inflated wings. |
alate 2 |
= saccate, vesiculate, winged |
architecture |
pollen grain |
Having lateral lobes or enations that resemble sacs or somewhat inflated wings. |
heterocolpate |
|
architecture |
pollen grain |
Having long, narrow, regularly disposed lacunae (pseudocolpi). |
…porate |
|
architecture |
pollen grain |
Having the number of pores indicated by the prefix; as in monoporate, polyporate, triporate. |
saccate 1 |
= alate, vesiculate, winged |
architecture |
pollen grain |
Having lateral lobes or enations resembling sacs or somewhat inflated wings. |
monadal |
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arrangement |
pollen |
Shed singly, or essentially so, only loosely and irregularly, if at all, coherent, each original tetrad having separated fully. |
dyadal |
|
arrangement |
pollen |
Cohering and shed in pairs, each tetrad having separated into halves. |
pollinial |
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arrangement |
pollen |
Polyadal with the grains of individual thecae (pollen sacs), or of fused thecae, compacted and forming tightly coherent masses (pollinia) that constitute the basic dispersal units, these sometimes distally attenuate to a sterile caudicle (translator arm), sometimes united by caudicles in groups of two or more, the caudicle(s) sometimes attached to a viscidium, either directly or through an intervening stipe; esp. in Asclepiadaceae, Orchidaceae. |
polyadal |
|
arrangement |
pollen |
Shed in groups of more than four, each group comprising grains from two or more original tetrads, the latter intact or not. |
pseudomonadal |
|
arrangement |
pollen |
Apparently monadal but each grain actually comprising an unseparated original tetrad in which the contiguous walls between component grains have dissolved. |
tetradal |
|
arrangement |
pollen |
Shed in groups of four, each an intact tetrad with original configuration unchanged; geometric arrangement of the grains may be tetrahedral, tetragonal, or linear, depending upon mode of pollen mother cell division. |
solitary 2 |
|
habit |
plants |
Growing singly; not aggregated. |
cespitose var. caespitose |
= tufted |
habit |
plants |
Growing in distinct, compact, relatively dense, turf-like aggregations. See also clustered (gregarious). |
clustered 2 |
= gregarious |
habit |
plants |
Growing in loose aggretations. See also cespitose. |
gregarious |
= clustered |
habit |
plants |
Growing in loose aggregations. See also cespitose. |
matted |
|
habit |
plants |
Growing in extensive, low, dense aggregations, sometimes with the stems of different plants intertwined. |
tufted 1 |
= cespitose |
habit |
plants |
Growing in distinct, compact, relatively dense, turf-like aggregations. |
submerged |
= submersed |
location |
plant, structure of aquatic plant |
Beneath the water surface. |
submersed |
= submerged |
location |
plant, structure of aquatic plant |
Beneath the water surface. |