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acrocaulous |
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insertion |
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At or very near the stem tip. |
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arching |
= recurved |
orientation |
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Curving backward or downward. |
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lorate |
= liguliform, strap-shaped |
solid shape |
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Elongate and relatively thin with the opposite faces more or less plane and moderately narrow, their edges more or less straight and parallel over most of their length; resembling a strap. |
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botuliform |
= sausage-shaped |
solid shape |
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Arcuately cylindric with rounded ends. |
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cereous 1 |
= ceraceous, waxen, waxy; > caesious, glaucescent, glaucous, pruinose |
coating |
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Covered with wax or a wax-like substance. |
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papillate |
= papillose |
relief |
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Having small, conoidal protrusions overall; appearing pimply. |
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cordiform |
= heart-shaped |
solid shape |
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Having two rounded basal lobes, broadest near the base and fairly regularly attenuate to an essentially angular apex; like the stylized form of a heart. See also obcordiform. |
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plicate 3 |
= plaited, pleated |
vernation |
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Having alternately adaxial and abaxial lengthwise folds, resembling a closed fan. |
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ramentaceous |
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pubescence |
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Of small, fragile, scarious, planate trichomes. |
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epibracteal |
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insertion |
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Upon the bracts, or partially adnate thereto and apparently arising therefrom. |
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scabridulous |
= scabrellate, scabrellous |
relief |
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Minutely scabrous (rough, scabrate, scabrid, scabridous). See also spiculate, which is not clearly distinct in its application. |
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flexed |
= bent |
solid shape |
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Having an abrupt bend at some point along its length. See also declinate (inclinate), geniculate (kneed), inflexed, reflexed. |
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small-dotted |
= puncticulate |
relief |
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Finely dotted (punctate). |
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grumous |
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solid shape |
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Having an external aspect like a cluster of grains, basically convex overall. |
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laticiferous |
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exudation |
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Producing and exuding latex. |
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bellied |
= ventricose |
solid shape |
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Bulging unilaterally near the middle, as though with a belly. |
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mucronate |
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apex |
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Terminating abruptly in a short, hard point that is a continuation of vascular tissue. See also apiculate, mucronulate. |
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bent |
= flexed |
solid shape |
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Having an abrupt bend at some point along its length. See also declinate (inclinate), geniculate (kneed), inflexed, reflexed. |
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mucronulate |
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apex |
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Finely mucronate. See also apiculate. |
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carpophore 1 |
< stalk |
STRUCTURE |
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The stalk supporting a sporocarp. |
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ovuliferous scale |
< cone scale, macrosporophyll (not recommended), megasporophyll |
STRUCTURE |
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A fertile scale in a female cone (megastrobilus), bearing one or two naked ovules, and subsequently seed(s), subtended by and borne closely upon a sterile, fleshy or woody scale sometimes termed a bract scale; in Pinophyta. |
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concolor(ous) |
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coloration |
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Uniform in hue and intensity of color; esp. leaves with identically colored adaxial and abaxial surfaces. |
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pustule |
= blister, bulla |
FEATURE |
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A relatively coarse, rounded protrusion or convexity. See also papilla. |
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elastic |
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texture |
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Resiliently deformable with no loss of structural integrity. |
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rugulose |
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relief |
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Slightly or finely rugose (corrugate, wrinkled). |
