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spurred |
= calcarate |
base |
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Having a relatively slender protrusion resembling a spur. |
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oblique 1 |
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base |
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Asymmetric about its longitudinal axis. |
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attenuate 1 |
= concave-tapered |
base |
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Gradually diminishing in width or diameter toward the proximal end, the sides longitudinally concave. Corresponds with acuminate for apex shape. |
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wedge-shaped 1 |
= cuneate, obtriangular |
base |
laminar structure |
Attenuate with the sides more or less straight and intersecting at an acute angle. |
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cuneate 1 |
= obtriangular, wedge-shaped |
base |
laminar structure |
Attenuate with the sides more or less straight and intersecting at an acute angle. |
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decurrent |
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base |
laminar structure |
Having the lamina prolonged and adherent to the supporting axis beneath the point of vascular insertion, the prolonged portion termed a sterigma. |
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auriculate |
= eared |
base |
laminar structure |
Having two small, rounded, lateral lobes, one to either side, that lie in more or less the same plane as the remainder of the lamina. |
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heart-shaped 1 |
= cordate |
base |
laminar structure |
Having two equal, more or less rounded, retrorse lobes, one to either side, overlapping or not, the intervening sinus relatively deep. |
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sagittate 1 |
= arrowhead-shaped |
base |
laminar structure |
Having two retrorse, generally triangular lobes, one to either side. |
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obtriangular 1 |
= cuneate, wedge-shaped |
base |
laminar structure |
Attenuate with the sides more or less straight and intersecting at an acute angle. |
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caudate 2 |
= tailed |
base |
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With one or more relatively slender, retrorse basal enations or appendages. |
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opposite 2 |
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arrangement |
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Having the members of each whorl inserted directly above and/or below those of the next adjacent whorl(s). See also antipetalous, antisepalous. |
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geminate |
= conjugate, paired |
arrangement |
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Inserted by pairs, the members of each fused or not. |
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brickwork-like |
= muriform |
arrangement |
cells |
Disposed like bricks in a wall; in parallel rows, the members in each row overlapping the boundaries between members of the adjacent rows. |
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notorhizal |
= incumbent |
arrangement |
cotyledons |
Adaxially contiguous and reflexed parallel to the hypocotyl and radicle, the abaxial surface of one lying against them. |
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contiguous |
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arrangement |
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Touching one another. |
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radial |
= radiant, radiate, stellate |
arrangement |
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Disposed about and mutually divergent from a common geometric center in two or three dimensions, thus collectively actinomorphic. |
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…stichous |
= …ranked |
arrangement |
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Disposed along the axis in the number of distinct ranks indicated by the prefix; as in distichous, polystichous, tristichous. |
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accumbent |
= pleurorhizal |
arrangement |
cotyledons |
Having the two cotyledons facing and parallel (adaxial surfaces contiguous) and recurved together, one lateral edge of each abutting the hypocotyl and radicle. |
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divaricate |
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arrangement |
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Strongly divergent. |
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spirolobal |
|
arrangement |
cotyledons |
Incumbent and folded together transversely. |
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radiant 2 |
= radial, radiate, stellate |
arrangement |
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Disposed about and mutually divergent from a common geometric center in two or three dimensions, thus collectively actinomorphic. |
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dyadal |
|
arrangement |
pollen |
Cohering and shed in pairs, each tetrad having separated into halves. |
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close |
= approximate |
arrangement |
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Disposed relatively near to one another. |
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divergent |
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arrangement |
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Directed at individually different angles from a common point or relatively limited zone of origin, thus farther apart distally than proximally. |
