putrid |
= fetid |
odor |
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Stinking like rotting flesh. |
microphyll |
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STRUCTURE |
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A small, lateral, leaf-like enation that, evolutionarily, is not a true leaf, i.e., whose vasculature, if any, consists of only a single median strand not ontogenetically integral with the vasculature of the bearing stem and not associated with leaf gaps in the stele of the stem; in Bryophyta, Psilotophyta, Lycopodiophyta, Equisetophyta. |
coronal |
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insertion |
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Upon or otherwise directly associated with the corona. |
veined |
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architecture |
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Having one or more orders of evident vasculature. |
glaucescent |
< ceraceous, cereous, pruinose, waxen, waxy |
coating |
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Becoming glaucous with age. See also caesious. |
calyptrate |
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architecture |
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Having or constituting a calyptra. |
spadix pl. spadices |
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STRUCTURE |
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A thick, fleshy, primary inflorescence axis bearing sessile flowers more or less sunken into its surface, the whole subtended and sometimes partially enclosed by a specialized bract, the spathe; esp. in Araceae. |
…parted |
? …cleft, …fid, …lobate, …lobed, …partite, …segmented |
solid shape |
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Having the number of lobes, divisions or segments indicated by the prefix; as in five-parted. |
involucel |
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STRUCTURE |
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One or more closely proximate whorls of bractlets (bracteoles, prophylls) immediately subtending (below or outside) a subordinate portion of an inflorescence that is subtended as a whole by an involucre, the bractlets often leaf-like, sometimes petaloid. |
ribbed 1 |
= costate |
architecture |
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Having one or more ribs (costae). |
nutrition |
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CHARACTER |
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Mode of acquiring nutrients. |
herbaceous 2 |
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texture |
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Composed entirely of relatively soft, non-woody (unlignified) tissues derived from primary growth. |
stem |
> cane, culm |
STRUCTURE |
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The entire axial system of a shoot, or a component, primary or higher-order (branch) axis of the shoot; differentiated anatomically and morphologically into nodes and internodes, from the former of which it branches exogenously and bears leaves, bracts, and/or inflorescences; usually growing above ground level, but sometimes structurally and functionally specialized and growing underground (e.g., rhizome, tuber) or upon the surface of the ground (e.g., stolon). Although sometimes phenotypically distinctive and often treated separately for descriptive purposes, the axial system of an inflorescence, excluding pedicels or parts of them in some cases, is properly stem in the above general sense. |
pseudobulb |
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STRUCTURE |
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An enlarged internode of an aboveground stem, storing water and photosynthate, resembling a bulb; esp. in Orchidaceae. |
lemma pl. lemmata, lemmas |
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STRUCTURE |
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The proximal bract of the (usually) two that immediately subtend the flower in a grass (Poaceae) floret; the other is the palea. |
trabeculate |
< septate |
architecture |
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Having one or more trabeculae. |
fissure |
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FEATURE |
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A relatively narrow, split or crack in the outer tissue(s) of a structure. |
barbellate |
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architecture |
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Bearing one or more barbels. |
scrobiculate |
= fine-pitted, foveolate |
relief |
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Finely pitted (foveate). |
inflorescence 1 |
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architecture |
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Mode or progressive pattern of bearing flowers; most appropriately described using adjectival terms. |
arching |
= recurved |
orientation |
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Curving backward or downward. |
sulcate |
= colpate, fossulate, furrowed, grooved, valleculate |
architecture |
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Having one or more elongate, relatively narrow and shallow depressions (sulci). |
reniform 2 |
= kidney-shaped |
solid shape |
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Thickly elongate and arcuate, circular or compressed-circular in transverse section, each end bluntly rounded; like the generalized shape of a human kidney. |
unilateral 3 |
= one-sided |
insertion |
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Upon or arising from one side only of the bearing structure. |
nectariferous |
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exudation |
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Producing and secreting nectar; when glands are nectariferous, they are usually indicated nominatively as nectaries. |