suffrutescent |
< subshrubby |
habit |
plant |
Becoming subshrubby. See also arboreous, arborescent, bushy, frutescent, fruticose, shrubby, suffruticose, woody-clumping. |
caulescent |
= stemmed |
architecture |
plant |
Having at maturity an evident, elongate, aboveground stem or stems from which branches, leaves, and/or reproductive axes arise at one or more levels along its length. |
taprooted |
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architecture |
plant |
Having a taproot. See also diffuse-rooted, fibrous-rooted. |
stilt-rooted |
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architecture |
plant |
Bearing and partly supported by stilt roots. |
bulbose |
= bulbous |
architecture |
plant |
Growing from and/or bearing bulbs. |
saprophytic |
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nutrition |
plant |
Heterotrophic and obtaining essential nourishment directly from the decomposing remains of other organisms. |
suffrutex pl. suffrutices |
= subshrub, undershrub |
nominative |
plant |
Of shrub-like form but with only the base woody, bearing herbaceous branches that die back at the end of each growing season. See also bush, frutex (shrub), tree, woody clump. |
weeping |
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architecture |
plant |
Having elongate, flexible, pendent branches. |
pterocaulous |
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architecture |
plant |
Having alate (winged) stems. |
bulbous |
= bulbose |
architecture |
plant |
Growing from and/or bearing bulbs. |
suffruticose |
< subshrubby |
habit |
plant |
Having the character of a suffrutex (subshrub, undershrub). See also arboreous, arborescent, bushy, frutescent, fruticose, shrubby, suffrutescent, woody-clumping. |
hard-stemmed |
= sclerocaulous |
texture |
plant |
Having hard, relatively dry, but essentially herbaceous main stems that contain a significant proportion of sclerotic tissue or fibers. |
sarcocaulous |
= fleshy-stemmed |
texture |
plant |
Having main stems that are sarcous (carnose, fleshy). |
liana |
< vine |
nominative |
plant |
Perennial with elongate ligneous stems that are flexible at least initially and that climb upon trees and shrubs. |
sclerocaulous |
= hard-stemmed |
texture |
plant |
Having hard, relatively dry, but essentially herbaceous main stems that contain a significant proportion of sclerotic tissue or fibers. |
polycarpic |
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reproduction |
plant |
Normally fruiting repeatedly prior to senescence. |
lianous |
< viny |
habit |
plant |
Having elongate, ligneous stems that are flexible at least initially and that climb upon trees and shrubs. |
sarmentose |
= runnering, stoloniferous |
architecture |
plant |
Producing stolons (runners), by means of which it propagates vegetatively. |
symbiotic |
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nutrition |
plant |
Partially dependent for essential nourishment upon other living organisms that derive some reciprocal benefit from the relationship. |
hemiepiphytic |
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habit |
plant |
Partially epiphytic; rooted in the ground but with stems growing upon and supported mainly by other plants. |
summer annual |
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nominative |
plant |
Annual, germinating in spring or early summer, reproducing sexually with no prolonged vegetative stage beforehand, and dying by late summer or autumn. See also winter annual. |
rhizomatous |
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architecture |
plant |
Having rhizomes. |
biennial 2 |
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nominative |
plant |
Of biennial duration. |
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. |
multicipital |
= many-stemmed |
architecture |
plant |
Having many, more or less equal, principal stems arising at substrate level from a caudex or root crown. |