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latex pl. latices, latexes |
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SUBSTANCE |
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A moderately viscous and sticky exudate, often milky, sometimes otherwise colored or clear. Overlaps conceptually with gum. |
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plated |
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relief |
bark |
Fissured in a more or less regular, anastomosing pattern with distinct, relatively large, undisturbed sectors intervening, the latter ultimately falling away more or less intact after attaining considerable thickness. |
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xylary |
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position |
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Within or otherwise directly associated with the wood. |
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exudation |
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CHARACTER |
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Discharged substance, as to type. |
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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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cyme |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
Determinate and constituting a compound dichasium or monochasium, the flowers maturing from the center outward (i.e., the distal or inner flowers maturing first); often more or less flat-topped. See also cymule, dichasium, helicoid cyme, monochasium, rhipidium, scorpioid cyme. |
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…porate |
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architecture |
pollen grain |
Having the number of pores indicated by the prefix; as in monoporate, polyporate, triporate. |
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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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ciliate |
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margin |
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Having fine, hair-like trichomes (cilia) oriented in the general plane of the structure. |
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sawtoothlet |
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STRUCTURE |
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A diminutive sawtooth. See also scallop (crena), scalloplet (crenule), tooth (dens), toothlet. |
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axil |
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FEATURE |
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The space bounded by and near the vertex of the distal angle between a lateral structure, especially a leaf, and the axis that bears it. |
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derivation |
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CHARACTER |
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Ontogenetic origin. |
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ostiole |
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STRUCTURE |
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The distal aperture of a syconium (fig); in Ficus (Moraceae). |
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tuber |
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STRUCTURE |
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An enlarged, basically subterranean stem segment or thallus outgrowth containing a high proportion of storage tissue and functioning as a perennating and often vegetatively propagative structure. |
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basiramous |
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architecture |
axis |
Branching at or near the base. See also basicauliramous. |
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diplecolobal |
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arrangement |
cotyledons |
Incumbent but with the cotyledons folded together twice or more, the folds transverse. |
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coating |
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CHARACTER |
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Exudate that covers the surface proper. See also indumentum (vesture), pubescence. |
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umbellet |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
A single set of pedicellate flowers in a compound umbel. |
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manifestation |
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CHARACTER |
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Degree or nature of evidence when present within the context in point. |
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adventitious bud |
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STRUCTURE |
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A vegetative or floral bud that arises directly from a root or from some site on a shoot other than a leaf axil or stem apex. |
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infrapetiolar |
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insertion |
bud |
Axillary and surrounded by the petiole base at maturity. |
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sheathing 1 |
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architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Differentiated into distinct proximal and distal portions, the former terete or involute and closely enclosing the bearing axis above the point of insertion. |
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…merous |
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architecture |
compound or compound-complex structure |
Having the number of equivalent component parts indicated by the prefix (e.g., petals in a corolla), or having different component sets of equivalent parts of that number in each set (e.g., calyx and corolla in a perianth); as in monomerous, oligomerous, polymerous, tetramerous, trimerous. |
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amplexicaul |
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architecture |
foliaceous structure |
See amplexicaulous. |
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contractile |
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architecture |
structure |
Diminishing in length, or acquiring the potential energy for a sudden decrease, due to the generation of internal tension during tissue development. |
