…palmate |
= …digitate |
architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Compound with the number of orders of leaflets indicated by the prefix, each order palmate; as in bipalmate. |
inflorescence 1 |
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architecture |
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Mode or progressive pattern of bearing flowers; most appropriately described using adjectival terms. |
sulcate |
= colpate, fossulate, furrowed, grooved, valleculate |
architecture |
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Having one or more elongate, relatively narrow and shallow depressions (sulci). |
single-leafleted |
= one-leafleted, unifoliolate |
architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Structurally compound but with only one leaflet, whose nature (as a leaflet, not a leaf) is revealed by an evident articulation with the petiole, this condition presumably derived by evolutionary reduction from a multifoliolate precursor. |
amplexicaul |
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architecture |
foliaceous structure |
See amplexicaulous. |
amplexicaulous var. amplexicaul |
= clasping |
architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Having two distinct basal lobes that partially or fully encircle the bearing axis. See also connate-perfoliate, perfoliate. |
hypostomatous |
= hypostom(at)ic |
architecture |
foliaceous structure |
Having stomata on only the abaxial surface. |
ramous |
= branched, ramiform, ramose |
architecture |
axis, laminar vein |
Dividing into or bearing branches. |
cyme-like |
= cymiform |
architecture |
capitulescence, inflorescence |
Resembling a cyme, but not strictly such. |
apolar |
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architecture |
pollen grain, spore |
Lacking morphologically evident polarity. |
rubiaceous |
= paracytic |
architecture |
stomate |
Having one or more subsidiary cells to either side, all oriented parallel to its long axis. |
…floral |
= …flowered |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Having the number of flowers indicated by the prefix; as in bifloral, multifloral, oligofloral, unifloral. |
microphyllous |
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architecture |
plant |
Bearing microphylls. |
spathaceous 1 |
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architecture |
plant, inflorescence |
Bearing a spathe or spathes. |
cruciferous |
= anisocytic |
architecture |
stomate |
Having three subsidiary cells, one distinctly smaller than the others. |
anisosepalous |
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architecture |
flower, perianth, calyx |
Having sepals unequal in size and/or shape. |
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. |
brachiate |
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architecture |
axis |
Having alternate, divaricate branches. |
…sulcate |
= …colpate, …fossulate, …furrowed, …grooved, …valleculate |
architecture |
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Having the number of sulci indicated by the prefix; esp. pollen grains; as in monosulcate, polysulcate, 3-sulcate. |
wiry |
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architecture |
axis |
Relatively very narrow and elongate, tough, and resiliently flexible. |
calyptrate |
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architecture |
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Having or constituting a calyptra. |
two-lipped |
= bilabiate; < labiate, lipped |
architecture |
perianth, calyx, corolla |
Strongly zygomorphic with connate and/or coherent members whose distal portions form two unequal, opposing, lip-like structures, one adaxial, one abaxial. See also gaping (personate, ringent). |
perfect |
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architecture |
flower |
Having functional pistil(s) and functional stamen(s) both present, thus bisexual (hermaphroditic). |
exindusiate |
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architecture |
sorus |
Lacking an indusium. |
cincinnate |
< helicoid-cymose |
architecture |
inflorescence |
Comprising one or more cincinni. |