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epipterous |
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solid shape |
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Alate with a single terminal wing. |
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partial |
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extent |
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Not reaching fully from the ovary wall or pericarp to the center of the ovary or fruit and/or from the apex to the base of its interior, thus not completely separating adjacent locules, which are recognized and delimited by extrapolating from the incomplete septal boundary(ies), the ovary or fruit nonetheless effectively unilocular. |
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aggregate fruit |
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nominative |
fruit |
Compound and derived from the two or more simple, superior ovaries of a single apocarpous flower; the ovaries connate, coherent, or contiguous in the fruit, the whole with or without accessory tissue. |
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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. |
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secund 1 |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Having the pedicels oriented such that the main bodies of all the flowers lie to one side of the bearing axis. |
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hemiparasitic |
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nutrition |
plant |
Partially parasitic; facultatively heterotrophic to a limited degree and capable of obtaining a portion of its essential nourishment directly from other living organisms, to which no reciprocal benefit accrues. |
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gamophyllous |
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architecture |
plant, shoot axis, involucre |
Having pairs or whorls of leaves or bracts that are connate at their edges. |
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maturation |
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CHARACTER |
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Timing of the attainment of functional maturity, sometimes relative to other structures, sometimes as to constituent structures relative to each other. |
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akene |
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nominative |
fruit |
See achene. |
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raceme |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
An elongate, unbranched main axis bearing pedicellate flowers inserted singly along it. |
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secund 2 |
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architecture |
stem |
Having the petioles oriented such that the main bodies of all the leaves lie to one side of the bearing stem. |
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hemispheric(al) |
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solid shape |
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Half-spheric(al); broadest at the base and uniformly rounded to the apex, circular in any transverse section, and half-circular in any median longitudinal section. |
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paniculate |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more panicles. |
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shoot 2 |
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STRUCTURE |
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A vascularized axis that is differentiated into nodes and internodes and that branches exogenously from the former, together with any non-axial structures borne from it. |
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perianth tube |
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STRUCTURE |
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A relatively narrow, fully connate portion of a syntepalous (gamotepalous) perianth proximal to a broader portion (limb) that comprises the distinct or connate distal portions of the tepals. |
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glomerule |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
A compact cluster of capitula (heads), sometimes subtended by an involucre; thus, a compound capitulum (head); esp. in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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calyculate 1 |
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architecture |
capitulum (head) |
With the involucre subtended by a calyculus; in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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asymmetric(al) 1 |
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solid shape |
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Not divisible into essentially equal halves along any line or plane. |
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carinal |
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aestivation |
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Having the petals of the keel (carina) enclosing the others. |
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bottom-rooted |
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habit |
plant |
Aquatic and rooted in the substrate beneath the water. |
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strict |
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course |
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Lacking any curve or bend. |
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barbed 1 |
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apex |
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Terminated by a small, relatively stiff, acutely reflexed, hook-like structure. |
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bulbel |
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STRUCTURE |
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A comparatively small bulb branching laterally from a larger, currently primary one. |
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androdioecious |
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reproduction |
taxon |
Having some plants with only bisexual flowers and others only staminate ones. |
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subsidiary cell |
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STRUCTURE |
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One of the cytologically distinctive epidermal cells that are sometimes present in a stomate and that surround and are regularly oriented in relation to the guard cells. |
