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A group or cluster of flowers arranged on a stem that is composed of a main branch or a complicated arrangement of branches. |
Inflorescence |
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The normal shedding from a plant of an organ that is mature or aged.
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abscission
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Without a stem, or with stem so short that the leaves appear basal
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acaulescent
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Having only one plane of symmetry, usually the vertical plane, referring to a flower, calyx or corolla. |
zygomorphic |
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The outermost floral whorl usually consisting of sepals or a calyx tube and calyx lobes. |
calyx |
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The floral whorl inside the calyx, usually consisting of petals or a corolla tube and corolla lobes. |
corolla |
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An inflorescence, usually a raceme, in which the flowers, through unequal pedicels, are in one horizontal plane. |
corymb |
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An indeterminate inflorescence with a simple, elongated axis and pedicellate flowers. |
raceme |
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The main axis of the spike or other inflorescence of grasses; the axis of a pinna in a bipinnate leaf. |
rachis |
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A creeping stem, usually below ground, consisting of a series of nodes and internodes with adventitious roots. |
rhizome |
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Free segment of the calyx. |
sepal |
