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exalate 2 |
= wingless |
architecture |
pollen grain |
Lacking lateral lobes or enations that resemble sacs or somewhat inflated wings. |
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headless 1 |
= acephalous |
architecture |
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Not terminated or surmounted by a head-like structure, esp. when one might be expected. |
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thyrse-like |
= thyrsiform |
architecture |
capitulescence, inflorescence |
Resembling a thyrse, but not strictly such. |
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liguliflorous |
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architecture |
capitulum (head) |
Bearing florets that all are bisexual and have zygomorphic corollas; in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
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chambered |
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architecture |
pith |
Interrupted by cavities that are more or less regularly spaced along the axis and that result from disintegration of tissue prior to axis maturity. |
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bifacial |
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architecture |
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Having two opposite broad surfaces that differ distinctly in appearance. |
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glomerate |
= agglomerate |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more glomes. |
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stemless |
= acaulous |
architecture |
plant |
Lacking any evident, elongate, aboveground stem, other than reproductive axes, at maturity, the leaves and/or reproductive axes arising essentially at substrate level from a very short axis with highly congested nodes. |
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sympetalous |
= gamopetalous |
architecture |
flower, perianth, corolla |
Having two or more petals that are partially or wholly connate. |
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…colporate |
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architecture |
pollen grain |
Having the number of colpi indicated by the prefix, each containing a pore; as in dicolporate, 3-colporate. |
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drupaceous |
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architecture |
fruit |
Having the structure and texture of a drupe. |
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rooted |
= radicate |
architecture |
plant |
Having one or more roots. |
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gamopetalous |
= sympetalous |
architecture |
flower, perianth, corolla |
Having two or more petals that are partially or wholly connate. |
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percurrent 2 |
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architecture |
tertiary laminar veins |
Perpendicular to and interconnecting adjacent parallel secondary veins, the secondary and tertiary veins together forming a scalariform pattern. |
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excavate(d) |
= hollow |
architecture |
axis |
Having pith tissue absent or disintegrating prior to axial maturity, resulting in an uninterrupted cavity running the length of the axis. Semantically, this term and its synonym refer to the axis, not to the pith itself, although the latter application has been traditional. |
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…seeded |
= …spermous |
architecture |
fruit |
Having the number of seeds indicated by the prefix; as in six-seeded, many-seeded. |
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spinulose |
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architecture |
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Finely spinose. |
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thyrsiform |
= thyrse-like |
architecture |
capitulescence, inflorescence |
Resembling a thyrse, but not strictly such. |
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arillate |
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architecture |
seed |
Having an aril. |
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bractleted |
= bracteolate |
architecture |
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Bearing or subtended by one or more bractlets (bracteoles, prophylls). |
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dichotomous |
|
architecture |
axis |
Branching by division of the apical meristem producing two coordinate but not necessarily equal derivatives from each division. |
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tergeminate |
= trigeminous, trijugate |
architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Compound with three orders of leaflets, each order bifoliolate. |
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leafless |
= aphyllous |
architecture |
plant, axis |
Not bearing leaves. |
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lipped |
= labiate; > bilabiate, one-lipped, two-lipped, unilabiate |
architecture |
perianth, calyx, corolla |
Strongly zygomorphic with connate and/or coherent members some or all of whose distal portions form one or two lip-like structures. |
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paleate |
= chaffy |
architecture |
receptacle (torus) |
Bearing paleae (pales, palets, receptacular bracts); in Asteraceae (Compositae). |
