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lorate |
= liguliform, strap-shaped |
solid shape |
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Elongate and relatively thin with the opposite faces more or less plane and moderately narrow, their edges more or less straight and parallel over most of their length; resembling a strap. |
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botuliform |
= sausage-shaped |
solid shape |
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Arcuately cylindric with rounded ends. |
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cereous 1 |
= ceraceous, waxen, waxy; > caesious, glaucescent, glaucous, pruinose |
coating |
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Covered with wax or a wax-like substance. |
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papillate |
= papillose |
relief |
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Having small, conoidal protrusions overall; appearing pimply. |
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cordiform |
= heart-shaped |
solid shape |
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Having two rounded basal lobes, broadest near the base and fairly regularly attenuate to an essentially angular apex; like the stylized form of a heart. See also obcordiform. |
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plicate 3 |
= plaited, pleated |
vernation |
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Having alternately adaxial and abaxial lengthwise folds, resembling a closed fan. |
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ramentaceous |
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pubescence |
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Of small, fragile, scarious, planate trichomes. |
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epibracteal |
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insertion |
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Upon the bracts, or partially adnate thereto and apparently arising therefrom. |
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scabridulous |
= scabrellate, scabrellous |
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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flexed |
= bent |
solid shape |
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Having an abrupt bend at some point along its length. See also declinate (inclinate), geniculate (kneed), inflexed, reflexed. |
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small-dotted |
= puncticulate |
relief |
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Finely dotted (punctate). |
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grumous |
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solid shape |
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Having an external aspect like a cluster of grains, basically convex overall. |
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laticiferous |
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exudation |
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Producing and exuding latex. |
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bellied |
= ventricose |
solid shape |
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Bulging unilaterally near the middle, as though with a belly. |
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mucronate |
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apex |
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Terminating abruptly in a short, hard point that is a continuation of vascular tissue. See also apiculate, mucronulate. |
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concentric |
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position |
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Having a center or axis of symmetry coincident with that of the context of reference. |
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pustulate |
= blistered, bullate, puckered |
relief |
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Having relatively coarse, irregularly disposed, rounded protrusions or convexities resembling blisters. See also papillate, papillose. |
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rugose |
= corrugate, wrinkled |
relief |
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Having irregular, narrow ridges or creases, the intervening areas flat to shallowly concave or convex, appearing overall as though crumpled and then spread out. See also rugulose. |
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shoot 1 |
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STRUCTURE |
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Collectively, all those portions of a plant body that are anatomically distinct from the root, the component axes differentiated into nodes and internodes, and branching exogenously from the former. |
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staminodial |
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insertion |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the staminodes. |
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hooked |
= hamate, uncinate |
apex |
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Having a recurved terminal portion that resembles a hook. |
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suture |
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FEATURE |
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An evident line of ontogenetic union. |
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lacerate |
= cut, incised, torn; > laciniate, slashed |
plane shape |
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Having straight to irregular lines of separation extending inward from the margin. See also cleft (dissected, divided, lobate, lobed, parted, partite, segmented). |
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trunk |
= bole; < main stem, primary stem |
STRUCTURE |
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The relatively stout, columnar, main stem of a distinct aboveground portion of a tree. |
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wavy |
= undulate |
margin |
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Having regular, curved, smoothly connected, alternating, wave-like deviations upward and downward from the general plane of the structure. |
