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| Acaulescent - A plant with no apparent stem |
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| Achene - a dry, 1-seeded, indehiscent fruit. |
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| Acicular - slender or needle shaped. |
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| Actinomorphic - radially symmetrical; may be bisected into similar halves in at least two planes. |
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| Acuminate - Tapering gradually to a point. |
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| Acute - Sharply pointed; Converging edges making an angle less than 90 degrees. |
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| Having usually separate parts united ; adnate |
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| Fusion of unlike structures |
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| Adventitious - Buds or roots that develp without pattern or in an abnormal position. |
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| Aggregate - Crowded into a cluster; a number of separate fruits from a single flower. |
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| Alternate - one leaf per node - or - when something occurs between something else, for example stamens alternating with petals |
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| Androecium - male parts of a flower |
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| A plant that completes its life cycle and dies in one year or one season. |
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| Anther - the pollen bearing part of the stamen. |
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| Apical - of or refering to the tip |
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| Appressed - pressed closely against, but not fused. |
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| Arborescent - Tree like in growth or appearance. |
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| Aristate - With a stiff, bristle-like awn or appendage. |
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| Attenuate - Elongate, narrowing gradually, usually refering to a base. |
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| Auriculate - Ear-lobed shaped. |
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| Axillary - of or arrising from the axil, between a leaf/petiole and the stem. |
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| Basal - At the base ; situated or attached at the base |
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| Beard - A group of long awns or bristle-like trichomes; a zone of pubescence. |
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Berry -
an indehiscent fruit, with the seeds immersed in the pulp, for instance tomato. |
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| plant which completes its life cycle and dies within the second year |
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Bilabiate
- having two lips; e.g. the form of the petals in many irregular flowers.
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Blade
flattened part of a leaf, excluding the stalk or petiole. |
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Bract -
- modified leaf associated with flower or inflorescence, differing in shape, size or colour from other leaves (and without an axillary bud).
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| Bracteole - A small bract. |
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Bristle -
Stiff, strong but slender hair or trichome. |
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| Bud - A aggregation of undeveloped leaves or flowers, or both, often enclosed by scales. |
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Bulb
A short, underground stem surrounded by fleshy leaves or scales. |
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| Caducous - early deciduous ; falling off easily or at an early stage. |
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| The outer whorl of the flower ; the sepals collectively. |
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| Campanulate - Bell - shaped. |
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| Canescent - Grey to whitish pubescence. |
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| Capitate - Head or head-like. |
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Capsule -
a dry fruit formed from two of more united carpels and dehiscing when ripe |
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Carpellate -
Flowers having one or more carpels or members of a compound pistil ; a simple pistil. |
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Catkin
A scaly-bracted, usually fexuous spike or spike-like inflorescence of cymules; ament, as in the betulaceae. |
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Caulescent
With an evident, above-ground stem. |
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| Cauline - borne on a stem. |
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Cespitose - forming mats
growing in dense tufts or clumps. |
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| Ciliate - With hairs arranged on the edge of a flattened structure such as a leaf, petal or samara. |
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| Circinate - Rolled up with tip in the center. |
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| Clambering - climbing clumsily. |
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| Clasping - The base partly or wholly surrounding another structure as some leaves clasp stems. |
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| Claw - the narrow, petiole like base, of some petals and sepals. |
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| Cleft - Any deep lobe or cut. |
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Colonial - a group of plants with a clonal relationship where all plants are from one rootstock, rhizome, stolon, or root system.
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| Comose - bearing a tuft of soft hairs |
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Cone
A globose or clindrical spiral aggreegation of sporophylls, bracts, or scales. |
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Connate
The fusion of similar parts |
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| Coriaceous - with a leathery texture. |
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| Corm - a bulb-like structure in which the fleshy portion is pre-dominately stem tisssue covered by membranous scales. |
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| Corymb - Short, broad, more or less flat-topped indeterminate inflorescence, the outer flowers opening first. Arising from different places along stem. |
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Cyme -
inflorescence in which the main axis and all lateral branches end in a flower with innermost flowering first. |
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| Decumbent - Reclining or lying on the ground, but with the end ascending. |
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| Decurrent - when the leaf blade continues along the petiole or stem. |
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| Deltoid - triangular in shape. |
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Dentate - toothed
Denticulate - finely toothed |
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| Dichotomous - equally forked |
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| Diffuse - Loosely branching or spreading; of open growth |
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| Dimorphic - occuring in two different forms. |
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| Dissected - deeply divided ; cut into many segments |
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| Distichous - two-ranked, on opposite sides of the stem in the same plane |
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| Distinct - seperate or free, not united |
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| Divergent - spreading in different dirrections, usually upward |
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| Doubly serrate - Serrations within serrations. |
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| Drupe - A fleshy, usually 1-seeded indehiscent fruit with seed enclosed in a stony endocarp. |
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| Elliptic - Being narrowed to relatively rounded ends and widest at or about the middle, 2 dimensional, essentially laminate. |
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| Emarginate - having a notch at the center of the apex. |
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| Endocarp - the inner most layer of the fruit wall. |
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| Entire - A margin without teeth, lobes or divisions. |
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| Epigynous - borne on the ovary; describes floral parts when attached above the level of the ovary and arising from tissue fused to the ovary wall |
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| Epipetalous - of stamens that are attached to the petals. |
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| Equitant - Distichous, the bases overlapping, as the leaves of Iris. |
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| Exserted - Projecting out of, beyond. |
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| Exindusiate - Sori without indusium. |
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Exocarp - The outer layer of the pericarp- the outer fruit wall. |
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| Falcate - curved like a sickle. |
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| Fascicle - A bundle or close cluster |
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| Fibrous - Of or resembling fibers. |
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| Filament - any thread-like structure; the stalk of the stamen, terminated by the anther. |
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| Filiform - Thread-like, slender and usually terete in cross section. |
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| Fleshy - Succulent or pulpy. |
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