duration |
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CHARACTER |
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Extent of lifetime, or persistence and physical state after maturation. |
lineate 2 |
> streaked, striate |
relief |
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Having very narrow, straight, shallow depressions or low protrusions. See also lineolate. |
truncate 2 |
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base |
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Having a generalized proximal boundary that is more or less straight or plane and approximately perpendicular to the central axis. |
ruminate |
= chewed |
relief |
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Irregularly convoluted, as if chewed. |
floral cup 2 (strict sense) |
= hypanthium (strict sense) |
STRUCTURE |
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A marginal protrusion from or enlargement of the receptacle (torus) of a flower, encircling and wholly, partly or not at all adnate to the gynoecium, bearing the perianth and androecium. |
semiobterete |
= half-obterete |
solid shape |
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Inversely semiterete; obterete but flattened on one side. |
calyptriform |
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solid shape |
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Hollow, roughly circular in cross-section, broader and open distally, and tapering to a closed apex, like a candle snuffer or elongate hood. |
horizontal |
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orientation |
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Parallel to the horizon, perpendicular to the force of gravity. |
streaked 1 |
= striate |
coloration |
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Having an overall pattern of fine, more or less parallel lines of contrasting hue and/or intensity. |
androecium pl. androecia |
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STRUCTURE |
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The stamen(s), staminode(s), if any, and their ontogenetically associated structure(s), if any, of a single flower, taken collectively. |
cycle |
= series, verticil, whorl |
STRUCTURE |
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A set of three or more lateral structures that are inserted around an axis at the same level. |
microsporocarp |
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STRUCTURE |
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A sporocarp that bears only microsporangia. |
velvety |
= velutinous |
pubescence |
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Of or bearing dense, moderately firm, more or less erect, capillate trichomes, like velvet pile to the touch. |
glochid |
= glochidium; < bristle, capillus, hair, seta, trichome |
STRUCTURE |
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A capillus (hair) or bristle (seta) that bears one or more barbs; esp. in Cactaceae. |
spathulate |
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plane shape |
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See spatula-shaped, spatulate. |
…partite |
? …cleft, …fid, …lobate, …lobed, …parted, …segmented |
solid shape |
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Having the number of lobes, divisions or segments indicated by the prefix; as in tripartite. |
pitted |
= foveate |
relief |
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Having numerous, small, rounded depressions. See also fine-pitted (foveolate, scrobiculate). |
involucre 1 |
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STRUCTURE |
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One or more closely proximate whorls, or a compact spiral, of bracts immediately subtending an inflorescence, the bracts sometimes leaf-like, sometimes petaloid. |
distichous |
= two-ranked |
arrangement |
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Disposed in two ranks along the axis, the ranks opposite one another. |
rightward |
= dextrorse |
orientation |
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Directed to the right, relative to the direction of growth along an explicit or implicit axis of reference. See also leftward (sinistrorse). |
barbellula pl. barbellulae |
= barbellule |
STRUCTURE |
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A small barbel (barbella); a very diminutive barb. |
obdeltate |
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plane shape |
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Approximately equilaterally triangular, broadest distally, and regularly attenuate to an angular base; inversely deltate; equilaterally cuneate. |
cross-vein |
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STRUCTURE |
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A relatively short, secondary or higher-order vein that runs directly between two veins of the next lower order, intersecting them more or less perpendicularly. |
pseudostem |
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STRUCTURE |
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A structure that resembles a stem but is not part of the axial system of a shoot, lacking anatomical differentiation into nodes and internodes. |
lenticular 2 |
= biconvex, lens-shaped |
solid shape |
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Relatively thin with two round, convex, opposite broad faces intersecting acutely at the circumferential edge; like a double-convex lens. See also disciform (discoid), meniscoid. |