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bostryx pl. bostryches |
= helicoid cyme |
nominative |
inflorescence |
A cyme in which each axial segment branches to only one side, and all branch to the same side, the whole thus appearing to have an elongate main axis that curves or coils toward its unbranched side. See also scorpioid cyme. |
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umbel |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
Pedunculate, determinate or indeterminate, simple or compound and apparently polychotomous, with one or more pedicellate flowers terminating each ultimate axis, the pedicels of each such floral set and the branches (rays) arising from each axial subdivision diverging from each other like the ribs of an umbrella, the whole plane, convex or concave distally. |
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cymulose |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more cymules. |
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umbellate |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more umbels. |
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pedunculate |
< stalked |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Having a peduncle. |
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spike |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
An elongate, determinate or usually indeterminate axis bearing sessile flowers inserted singly along it, unbranched or sometimes bearing lateral branches of the same nature. |
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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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spikelet |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
A compound structure belonging to the penultimate subdivisional order of a sedge or grass inflorescence; consisting of one or more florets (each a diminutive flower subtended by specialized bractlets (bracteoles) called scales or glumes in sedges, lemma and palea in grasses), spicately arranged along a common axis (rachilla), the axis and florets together subtended by one or (usually) two bracts (first and second glumes). The spikelet is usually considered to be the basic unit of inflorescence in Cyperaceae and Poaceae (Gramineae). |
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spikeleted |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Having the penultimate subdivisional order consisting of spikelets. |
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head |
= capitulum |
nominative |
inflorescence |
Having crowded, sessile or subsessile, small flowers (florets) borne upon an expanded, distally plane or convex, sometimes paleate, compound receptacle (torus), often with a surrounding involucre, and sometimes a subtending calyculus; characteristic of Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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dichasiate |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more simple or compound dichasia. See also cincinnate, cymose, cymulose, helicoid-cymose, monochasiate, scorpioid-cymose. |
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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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dichasium pl. dichasia |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
Determinate and falsely dichotomous with each axial segment bearing a sessile terminal flower and either a pair of opposite pedicellate lateral flowers or a pair of opposite lateral branches. See also cincinnus, cyme, cymule, helicoid cyme, monochasium, scorpioid cyme. |
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…floral |
= …flowered |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Having the number of flowers indicated by the prefix; as in bifloral, multifloral, oligofloral, unifloral. |
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bundle (not recommended) |
= fascicle |
nominative |
inflorescence |
A cluster of pedicellate flowers that are inserted very close together and little if at all divergent from one another, the whole sessile or subsessile. |
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headed 1 |
= capitate |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more capitula. |
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fascicle |
= bundle (not recommended) |
nominative |
inflorescence |
A cluster of pedicellate flowers that are inserted very close together and little if at all divergent from one another, the whole sessile or subsessile. |
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thyrsate |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more thyrses. |
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glome |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
A rounded cluster of sessile or subsessile flowers that are inserted very close together and oriented divergently, the whole more or less hemispheric and sessile or subsessile. |
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fascicled 1 |
= bundled (not recommended), fasciculate |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more fascicles. |
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bundled 1 (not recommended) |
= fascicled, fasciculate |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more fascicles. |
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thyrse |
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nominative |
inflorescence |
An elongate, indeterminate main axis bearing numerous lateral branches, each the principal axis of a cymose subdivision. |
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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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glomerate |
= agglomerate |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more glomes. |
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catkin |
= ament |
nominative |
inflorescence |
Elongate, more or less flexible and spike-like, often unisexual, the central axis bearing numerous diminutive flowers inserted either singly or in cymules, the pedicels or secondary axes subtended by small, paleaceous bracts or scales, the whole often deciduous as a unit. |
