stipe 2 (broad sense, not recommended) |
< stalk; > gynophore, hypogynium, peduncle, petiole |
STRUCTURE |
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A stalk of or supporting a frond, inflorescence, or gynoecium. |
flexuous var. flexuose |
= zig-zag |
course |
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Having alternating angular bends to either side, more or less straight between the bends. |
internodal |
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position |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the internodes. |
granuliferous |
= powdery, pulverulent |
coating |
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Covered with a more or less even deposit of fine, dry particles. See also lentiginous (dusty, lentiginose), which is not clearly distinct in its application. |
reduced |
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size |
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Unusually or unexpectedly small. |
placenta-shaped |
= placentiform |
solid shape |
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Thickly discoid (disciform); like the generalized form of a human placenta. |
nodulose |
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solid shape |
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Diminutively nodose; esp. roots of Fabaceae (Leguminosae), the nodules harboring nitrogen-fixing bacteria. |
macula pl. maculae |
= blotch, spot |
FEATURE |
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An area that differs in color from the rest of a structure's surface, usually due to differing coloration. See also eyespot. |
squamule 3 |
= lodicule, squamella |
STRUCTURE |
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One of two or three small, scale-like structures inserted at the base of the androecium, distal to the palea, in most grass (Poaceae) flowers; often regarded as a vestigial branch or perianth member. |
quincunx |
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aestivation |
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Imbricate in one whorl of five members, two wholly exterior, two wholly interior, and one partially exterior and partially interior. |
mericarp |
= coccus |
STRUCTURE |
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One of the segments of a dehisced schizocarp; usually one-seeded and itself indehiscent. |
kneed |
= geniculate |
solid shape |
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Elongate, abruptly bent, somewhat thicker at the angle, and appearing as though articulate like a leg at the knee. |
bulbel |
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STRUCTURE |
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A comparatively small bulb branching laterally from a larger, currently primary one. |
trochlear |
= pulley-wheel-shaped |
solid shape |
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Discoid (disciform) but with the circumferential surface concave between faces. |
bicolor(ous) |
< discolor(ous) |
coloration |
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Having two surfaces of different colors; esp. leaves with differently colored adaxial and abaxial surfaces. |
sepal |
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STRUCTURE |
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One of the one or more constituent members of a calyx; usually green and leaf-like, but sometimes with color and/or texture otherwise, sometimes petaloid; may be distinct or else connate with one or more others and/or may be free or else adnate to one or more other floral structures. |
divaricate |
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arrangement |
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Strongly divergent. |
indument |
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STRUCTURE / SUBSTANCE |
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See indumentum. |
glabrate |
= near-bald |
pubescence |
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Nearly glabrous, with only a very sparse covering of trichomes. |
twig |
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STRUCTURE |
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The terminal portion of an ultimate branch of a woody stem, representing the most recent increment of growth and bearing or having borne the current or most recent increment of leaves. See also branchlet. |
ceraceous 2 |
cereous, waxen, waxy |
texture |
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Having the consistency of wax. |
barbellulate |
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architecture |
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Bearing one or more barbellules (barbellulae). |
lobate |
? cleft, dissected, divided, lobed, parted, partite, segmented |
solid shape |
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Having one or more component sectors or peripheral protrusions that is/are delimited by concavities in the surface or margin and that is/are not proximally distinct from the remainder of the whole. The meanings of this term and its approximate synonyms sometimes have been supposed to differ according to the depth of the delimiting concavities relative to the midline or midpoint of the overall structure, and/or to the shape or proportions of the protusions or sectors; however, there has been little consistency in the applications of the various terms according to such distinctions, which are ones only of degree and are necessarily arbitrary in any case. In general usage, these terms differ only indistinctly and connotatively: cleft, lobed (or lobate), parted (or partite) and segmented tend to connote fewer protrusions or sectors; lobate usually connotes as well a generally rounded shape; dissected tends to connote more numerous sectors that are elongate and angular. See also cut (incised, lacerate, torn), laciniate (slashed). |
spiral 2 |
= helical |
course |
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Curving with regularly increasing radius from one end to the other in one general plane. |
psilate |
= bald, glabrous |
pubescence |
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Lacking trichomes. |