stephanocolpate |
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architecture |
pollen grain |
Having more than three surficial grooves (colpi) oriented meridionally. |
unstalked |
= exstipitate, sessile, stalkless |
architecture |
structure |
Lacking a stalk, thus inserted ("sitting") directly upon the bearing structure. |
grooved |
= colpate, fossulate, furrowed, sulcate, valleculate |
architecture |
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Having one or more relatively narrow and shallow longitudinal depressions (grooves). |
cormose |
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architecture |
plant |
Growing from corms. |
many-stemmed |
= multicipital |
architecture |
plant |
Having many, more or less equal, principal stems arising at substrate level from a caudex or root crown. |
catkinate |
= amentate |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more catkins. |
achlamydeous |
= naked |
architecture |
flower |
Lacking a perianth. |
one-lipped |
= unilabiate; < labiate, lipped |
architecture |
perianth, calyx, corolla |
Strongly zygomorphic with connate and/or coherent members some or all of whose distal portions form one lip-like structure. |
glandular 1 |
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architecture |
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Having one or more glands. |
petiolate |
< stalked |
architecture |
leaf |
Having a petiole. |
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. |
paracytic |
= rubiaceous |
architecture |
stomate |
Having one or more subsidiary cells to either side, all oriented parallel to its long axis. |
barbellate |
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architecture |
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Bearing one or more barbels. |
rhipidiate |
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architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more rhipidia. |
aerial-rooted |
> climbing-rooted |
architecture |
plant, structure |
Bearing aerial roots. |
stephanocolporate |
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architecture |
pollen grain |
Stephanocolpate, each groove containing a pore. |
…grooved |
= …colpate, …fossulate, …furrowed, …sulcate, …valleculate |
architecture |
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Having the number of grooves indicated by the prefix; as in three-grooved, 5-grooved. |
taprooted |
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architecture |
plant |
Having a taproot. See also diffuse-rooted, fibrous-rooted. |
one-sided 1 |
= unilateral |
architecture |
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Having only one side, as compared with presumably equivalent, bilaterally symmetric structures. |
irregular 1 |
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architecture |
perianth, calyx, corolla |
Imperfectly actinomorphic, the constituents disposed symmetrically but unequal in size and/or shape. See also peloric. |
spathe-like |
= spathaceous |
architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Resembling a spathe. |
heteromorphic |
> heteroblastic, heterocephalous, heterocladic, heterophyllous, heterostylous |
architecture |
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Occurring in two or more distinctly different forms within the taxon in point, at either the same or different times, in either the same or different plants. |
scaly 2 |
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architecture |
bud, bulb |
Invested by scale-like (squamiform) structures. |
petiolulate |
< stalked |
architecture |
leaflet |
Having a petiolule. |
polypetalous |
= apopetalous, choripetalous, dialypetalous |
architecture |
flower, perianth, corolla |
Having two or more distinct petals; having the petals unfused. |