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Leathery Texture

Coriaceous

Thin, like the skin of an onion

Papyraceous

Very thin and translucent

Membranous

Leaf surface shiny and smooth, lacking any hairs or other protuberances

Glabrous

Thick and fleshy, often storing moisture

Succulent

Covered with waxy secretion, bluish

Glaucous

Rough feeling, sandpapery

Scabrous

Scaly, scales able to be rubbed off

Scurfy

Technical term for a hair or scale

Trichome

With hairs along the leaf margin

Ciliate

With rough, abrasive hairs

Hispid

With star-shaped structures

Stellate

With a thick "carpet" of wooly, matted hairs

Tomentose

With a covering of very fine, short hairs

Puberulent

Hairs that are star-shaped

Stellate

Embedded structure storing a substance, such as found in citrus leaves

Punctate gland

Wrinkled texture

Rugose

Warty texture

Verrucose

Folded leaf surface

Plicate

Are between stem and cotyledons

Hypocotyl

Special structure in some plants with extra thick stem portions storing moisture and nutrients

Caudex

Sharp modified stem

THorn

Sharp modified leaf

Spine

Sharp modified epidermis

Prickle

Underground, mostly stem tissue, eg. Gladiolus

Corm

1. Linear


2. Lanceolate


3. Oblanceolate


4. Ovate


5. Obovate


6. Elliptic


7. Oblong



1. Acuminate


2. Acute


3. Obtuse


4. Rounded



1. Entire


2. Serrate


3. Serrulate


4. Dentate


5. Denticulate


6. Crenate


7. Sinuate

1. Awl


2. Subulate, scale



1. Spadate


2. Peltate



1. Sagittate


2. Auriculate


3. Hastate

Single term Collective Term


1. Stamen Androecium


2. Pistil Gynoecium


3. Petal Corolla


4. Sepal Calyx



Inflorescence: Raceme


Category: Racemose


Growth: Indeterminate


If unopened flowers were at the bottom: Cymose


If the flower lacked stalks: Spike

13. Ray, ligulate flower


14. Disc Flower


15. Receptacle

Achene



Bilateral



Fruitlets: Drupe or drupelet


Infructescence: Aggregate

Berry



Drupe, fleshy exocarp



Pome


Hypanthium tissue is eaten


Accessory fruit



Undulate



Sinuate



Biserrate or doubly serrate



1. Imparipinnate


2. Tendrip Pinnate


3. Paripinnate

Palmate



1. Pinnately lobed


2. Pinnatifid


3. Pinnatisect



1. Retuse


2. Emarginate


3. Obcordate



Oblique



Perfoliate



Parallel



Venation: Penni-parallel


Leaf Shape: Elliptic


Leaf Apex: Acute



Reticulate



Falcate



Trifoliolate



Cordate



Dichotomous



Truncate

Only male or female

Dioecious

Both male and female

Bisexual, hermaphroditic

May or may not have petiole but part of the leaf is adnate

Decurrent

Go around the stem but are loosely holding the stem and not attached

clasping

stem goes through leaf blade

perfoliate

two like structures fused together and stem goes through them

connate-perfoliate

in grasses, area between sheath and blade

collar

in grasses, outgrowths near the collar region at the edges of the sheath

auricles

in grasses, part going around true stem

sheath

one leaf pair is noticebaly smaller than the other

anisophyllous

without leaves

aphyllous

leafy stipules

foliaceous

from the point where the secondary axis begins to the last secondary axis

rachis

from rachis to the first leaflet or possily tertiary axis

petiolule

secondary or subsequent axes

rachilla

two leaflets or divisions

bifoliolate

three leaflets

trifoliolate

pinnate leaves but each leaflet replaced with secondary axis

bipinnate

veins arc or curve

arcuate venation

needle like

acicular

modification of leaf apex to serve as tendril

cirrhose

dramatic curve inward of apex

emarginate

small extension of themidrib extending out of the blade

mucronate

leaf apex pointed but not sharp

apiculate

pointed and sharp leaf apex

cuspidate

apex very long and shaped somewhat like a tail

caudate

narow angle between the two sides of the base

cuneate

same as cuneate but with a curve

attenuate

wraps around and grasp stem it's attached to

amplexicaul

base travels down stem and is adnate

decurrent

ochreate where base is fused to tube and wrapped around the stem

sheathing

so uneven as to make one think randomly torn

lacerate

lacerate leaves with lobes uniformly pointing forward

runcinate

trichome with flat surface at top

peltate

portion of leaf that lies directly beneath cotyledons and above root system

hypocotyl

modified stem from hypocotyl tissue

caudex

plants with swollen stems

caudiciforms

modified petiole

phyllode

modified leaf

cladode

arise below ground

suckers

arise above ground

water sprouts

modification of regular stem, short and grow slowly

spurs

short shoot on cacti produces all flowers

cephalium

apical meristem goes wacko and multiplies

cristate

anomalous growth

monstrose

aids in gas exchange

lenticel

modified leaf wrapped around it that turns into a type of skin

tunicate bulb

fleshy leaves with one destined to become photosyntheitc

scaly bulb

small bulbs that grow from mother bilb

bulbils

small bulbs above ground in leaf axils

bulbets

defend themselves against dry

xerophytes

defend agains saline

halophytes

live mostly underground

geophytes

structure that dies but does not fall off

marcescent

spring

vernal

summer

aestival

autumnal

fall

hibernal

winter

series of modified leaves sorrounding a single flower or group of flowers

bract, collectivelly called involucre

sterile flower parts

sepals and petals, collectively calyx and corrola, but together called the perianth

flowers with one fertile whorl but not the other

staminate