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| A placenta along the central axis (or along the vertical midline of the |
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| Located in or arising from an axil |
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| A portion of a plant from which a series of lateral organs or branches arise, as the |
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| Resembling or having the structure of a berry. |
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| The upper, usually enlarged petal of a papilionaceous flower; the standard. |
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| Bearded with long, stiff hairs. |
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| bearing short, firm, retorse points |
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| diminutive of barbate or barbed |
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| Developing or proceeding from the distal end toward the base. (Compare |
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| Toward the basal or proximal (as opposed to the distal) end |
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A comparatively short and stout terminal appendage on a thickened organ, as a
seed or a fruit; not used for a flat organ such as a leaf. |
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| bearing tuft or ring of rather long hairs |
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The most generalized type of fleshy fruit, derived from a single pistil, fleshy throughout,
and containing usually several or many seeds; more loosely, any pulpy or juicy fruit. |
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A chemical class of nitrogenous, water-soluble pigments, consisting of betacyanins
(blue or violet to purple or red) and betaxanthins (yellow to orange or orange-red). |
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| Living two years only and blooming the second year. |
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| more or less deeply cleft from the tip into two usually equal parts |
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| twice pinnate, the primary pinnae again pinnate |
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The expanded, terminal portion of a flat organ such as a leaf, petal, or sepal, in
contrast to the narrowed basal portion. |
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| A waxy powder covering a surface, making it glaucous or pruinose |
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| having opposite widely spreading branches |
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A specialized leaf, from the axil of which a flower or flower-stalk arises; more
loosely, any more or less reduced or modified leaf associated with a flower or an
inflorescence, but not a part of the flower itself; sometimes applied also to a specialized
leaf subtending an inflorescence; in conifers, one of the primary appendages of
the cone axis, in the axils of which the ovuliferous scales are borne. |
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| having the form or position of a bract |
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Diminutive of bract; strictly, a bract that is borne on a petiole instead
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An undeveloped leafy shoot, or an undeveloped flower. Vegetative buds are often
enclosed by reduced, specialized leaves called bud-scales. |
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A short, vertical, underground shoot that has modified leaves or thickened leafbases
prominently developed as food-storage organs. |
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Diminutive of bulb; one of the small new bulbs arising around the
parent bulb; a bulb-like structure produced by some plants in the axils of leaves or
in place of flowers. |
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| Covered with rounded projections resembling unbroken blisters. |
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| A firm thickening; the firm, thickened base of the lemma in many grasses. |
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Provided with a set of small bracts around the calyx, suggesting an outer
calyx; in the Asteraceae, provided with a set of distinctive small bracts around the
base of the involucre. |
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Literally, without a stem; in common botanical usage, with the leafy part
of the stem so short that the leaves are all clustered in a basal rosette. |
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The part of a stamen that bears the pollen, consisting of one or usually two
pollen-sacs and a connecting layer between them. |
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A chemical class of water-soluble pigments, ranging in color from blue
or violet through purple to crimson, often found in the central vacuole of a cell,
especially in petals. |
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A specialized, usually fleshy outgrowth from the funiculus that covers or is attached
to the mature seed; more loosely, any appendage or thickening of the seed-coat. |
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| all of the sepals of a flower, collectively |
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On or pertaining to a stem. Cauline leaves are attached to the stem distinctly
above the ground, in contrast to basal leaves. |
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| all of the petals of the flower collectively |
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| A leaf of the embryonic plant within a seed. |
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Shaped more or less like an equilateral triangle, with one of the sides
as the base. |
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| Smooth, without hairs (trichomes) or glands. |
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| Shaped like a spatula, rounded above and narrowed to the base |
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The stalk of a structure, without regard to its morphological nature. The term is
usually applied only where more precise terms such as petiole, pedicel, or peduncle
cannot be used, as the stipe of an ovary |
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Covered with a fine, waxy, removable powder that imparts a whitish or bluish
cast to the surface, as a prune or a cabbage-leaf. |
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| An indument of crooked, matted or tangled hairs. |
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A more or less elongate inflorescence with pedicellate flowers arising in acropetal
sequence (from the bottom up) from an unbranched central axis. (Compare
corymb, spike, panicle.) |
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Feathery; applied to a slender organ, such as a style or pappus-bristle, with a
dense long pubescence, or with pinnately arranged lateral bristles. |
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The modified calyx crowning the ovary (and achene) of the Asteraceae, consisting
variously of hairs, scales, bristles, or a mixture of these. |
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