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rounded |
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apex |
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Convex overall and more or less regularly curved. |
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…fid |
? …cleft, …lobate, …lobed, …parted, …partite, …segmented |
plane shape |
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Having the number of lobes, divisions or segments indicated by the prefix; as in bifid, quadrifid. |
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gland |
> nectary |
STRUCTURE |
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An anatomically distinct multicellular structure that produces and exudes a particular substance, or resembles those that do. |
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staminal |
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insertion |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the stamens. |
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hood |
= cucullus |
STRUCTURE |
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A hood-shaped structure or component, esp. in an inflorescence or flower. |
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supramedial |
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position |
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Just above the middle of the structure in point. |
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knotty |
= knobby, nodose |
solid shape |
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Having knot-shaped (gongylodate, gongyloid, knob-shaped, nodiform) protrusions. See also nodulose. |
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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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wall (fruit, ovary, pollen, spore) |
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STRUCTURE |
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The exterior layer of tissue(s) enclosing anatomically distinct interior tissues and sometimes fluid and/or one or more cavities. |
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balding |
= glabrescent |
pubescence |
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Becoming bald (glabrous, psilate) with age. |
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micropyle |
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FEATURE |
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The small pore in the integuments of an ovule at its apex, through which the pollen tube grows; or the corresponding aperture or scar in the coat of the seed that develops subsequently. |
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calyptrate |
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architecture |
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Having or constituting a calyptra. |
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odorless |
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odor |
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Lacking a distinct odor. |
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cochlear |
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aestivation |
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Imbricate with one member larger than and exterior to the others, parallel to one that is internal to all the others, strongly incurved, and enclosing the others. |
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peripterous |
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solid shape |
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Alate with a single transversely encircling wing. |
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crumpled |
= corrugate |
aestivation |
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Having members tightly and irregularly folded, the whole appearing as though wadded upon emergence. |
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proximal |
> basal |
insertion |
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Upon or associated with the portion of a structure closest to its developmental origin. |
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dorsal (not recommended) |
= abaxial |
position |
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On or pertaining to the side or portion of a lateral structure that faces (or would face) away from the bearing axis when (or if) the axis of the lateral structure is (or were) oriented in the same general direction as the bearing axis. |
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ribbed 1 |
= costate |
architecture |
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Having one or more ribs (costae). |
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…faced |
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solid shape |
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Having relatively large, flat or shallowly curved portions of the external surface that are bounded by more or less distinct angular discontinuities in that surface, of the number indicated by the prefix; as in three-faced. |
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sporophyll |
= spore leaf; > fertile frond |
STRUCTURE |
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A leaf or homologous structure that bears sporangia. See also megasporophyll (macrosporophyll, not recommended), microsporophyll. |
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hermaphroditic |
= bisexual |
reproduction |
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Having functional reproductive structures of both sexes. See also perfect. |
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subvalvate |
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dehiscence |
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Incompletely or partly valvate. |
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involucre 2 |
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STRUCTURE |
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One or more closely proximate whorls, or a compact spiral, of bracts (phyllaries) surrounding (proximal to) the compound receptacle (torus) and florets of a capitulum (head); in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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torus 2 pl. tori |
= receptacle |
STRUCTURE |
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The short, expanded, compound axial structure surmounting a peduncle and basal to two or more flowers, or to the florets of a capitulum (head) in Asteraceae (Compositae), where it may bear paleae (receptacular bracts), scales, bristles, trichomes, or subulate enations, and may be smooth or variously pitted (alveolate, foveolate). |
