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mucilage |
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substance |
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A slimy exudate. |
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cariniform |
= keel-shaped |
solid shape |
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Elongate, basically triangular in transverse section, tapering at one or both ends, the outer edge thus somewhat arcuate, the whole resembling the keel of a boat. |
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ovate |
= egg-shaped |
plane shape |
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Elongate and wholly convex, widest near a bluntly rounded base and attenuate to a narrower rounded apex; like the lateral outline of a fowl egg. See also obovate. |
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composite |
= compound |
architecture |
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Unitary as a whole but comprising two or more equivalent substructural entities, these topologically distinct (e.g., leaflets in a compound leaf) or not (e.g., carpels in a compound pistil). |
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pinnatifid |
> pinnatisect; < pinnate |
solid shape |
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Pinnately divided. |
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puncticulate |
= small-dotted |
coloration |
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Finely punctate (dotted). |
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echinate |
= spinose, spiny |
architecture |
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Bearing spines. |
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rough 2 |
= scabrate, scabrid, scabridous, scabrous |
relief |
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Having small, stout, stiff, more or less acute protrusions. |
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fibrous root |
< diffuse root |
STRUCTURE |
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A diffuse root that includes a significant component of woody or sclerotic strands and is consequently tough and often wiry. |
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sheath (leaf) |
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STRUCTURE |
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The lower (basal or proximal), fundamentally laminar but strongly involute portion of one of the non-petiolate leaves characteristic of most monocotyledons (Liliidae); distinct from the leaf blade, which, when present, is borne distally upon it; analogous, though not necessarily homologous, with a petiole; usually more or less completely enclosing a portion of the stem above the node from which the leaf is borne. |
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glabrescent |
= balding |
pubescence |
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Becoming glabrous (bald, psilate) with age. |
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stamen |
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STRUCTURE |
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A seed-plant organ that produces and releases pollen; usually comprising a stalk (filament) that bears a locular structure (anther) containing sporogenous tissue; however, the filament may be lacking and the anther sessile, or the stamen may be undifferentiated, the whole then consisting of microsporangia embedded in or borne upon the surface of a more or less planate body of sterile tissue; one of the constituent organs of a bisexual or a staminate flower; may be distinct or else connate with one or more others and/or may be free or else adnate with one or more other floral structures. |
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suprafoliar |
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position |
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Upon the stems, each directly above (distal to) and very near a point of leaf insertion. |
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knot-shaped |
= gongylodate, gongyloid, knob-shaped, nodiform |
solid shape |
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Approximately globose, the surface convoluted or not, like a knob or knot; usually applied only to structures or components that are relatively small. |
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trullate |
= trowel-shaped, trulliform |
plane shape |
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Broadest below the middle, more or less straightly attenuate to either end, the sides angled at the level of greatest width; like the blade of a mason's trowel. See also obtrullate, obtrulliform. |
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latrorse |
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dehiscence |
anther |
Opening laterally, on the tangential sides. See also extrorse, introrse. |
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incumbent 2 |
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orientation |
anther |
Oppositely parallel to the filament on the adaxial side of the latter. |
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valvate 3 |
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dehiscence |
anther |
Poricidal with the pores formed by the raising of small flaps (valves) in the exterior wall. |
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introrse |
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dehiscence |
anther |
Opening inwardly, on the adaxial side. See also extrorse, latrorse. |
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extrorse |
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dehiscence |
anther |
Opening outwardly, on the abaxial side. See also introrse, latrorse. |
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…locular |
= …loculed |
architecture |
anther, ovary, fruit |
Having the number of locules indicated by the prefix; as in plurilocular, trilocular, unilocular. |
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…loculed |
= …locular |
architecture |
anther, ovary, fruit |
Having the number of locules indicated by the prefix; as in one-loculed, five-loculed. |
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included |
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position |
anther, style |
Not protruding beyond the floral envelope. See also exsert(ed). |
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exsert(ed) |
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position |
anther, style |
Protruding beyond the floral envelope. See also included. |
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raphal |
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derivation |
aril |
Produced or resulting from a modification of the raphe. |
