Floral Glossary
acuminate
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aggregate fruit
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aggregate of drupelets
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aggregate of follicles
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alternate arrangement (of leaves)
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aril
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arrangement (of leaves on stem)
alternate
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auricle
berry
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bract
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branching |
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multinodal
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some hard pines
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uninodal
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soft pines
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capsule
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complete (flower)
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incomplete (flower)
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compound leaf
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palmately
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pinnately
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Bipinnately
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Twice pinnate
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Cupule
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Cyme
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Dioecious
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diploxylon
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pines having two fibrovascular bundles per needle
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Drupe
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exfoliating
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peeling off in layers or flakes, as bark of certain trees
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F
fascicle
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tight cluster or bundle of structures arising from same point
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pine needles
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Follicle Follicetum
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dry, usually many-seeded fruit that splits along one side only to release seeds
SEE Aggregate of Follicles |
G
glaucus
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H
haploxylon
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pines having one fibrovascular bundle per needle
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herb
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plant in which aerial parts do not remain above ground at end of growing season
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lenticel
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N
nastic movements
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non-directional movements of plants in response to environmental stimuli
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panicle
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loosely branched, pyramidal flower cluster
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peduncle
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perfect (flower)
imperfect (flower)
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flowers having both stamens and
pistils; also refers to a whole plant whose flowers have both male and female parts |
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pinnate (venation)
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veins arranged in pairs coming from main central midrib vein (rachis)
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pome
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fruit consisting of fleshy enlarged receptacle and tough central core containing seeds
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regular (flower)
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having the members of each whorl of floral organs arranged in a symmetrical shape, as in the rose and petunia
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sealing band
on pine cone scale |
thin, resinous layer formed at edge of cone scale
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serrate (leaf margin)
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silicle
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silique
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simple (structure of leaf)
structure (of leaf)
simple
T
tracheid
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long, tapered, dead cells within xylem tissue forming a tube for transporting water and dissolved nutrients from roots to needles and contributing support to the tree and needles
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U
umbo
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rounded or conical elevation on surface of plant structure;
in pines, protuberance visible at tip of mature cone scale; found on acorns and mushrooms also |
V
vascular bundle
of a pine needle |
fluid-conducting channel composed mostly of strands of phloem toward outer part of needle and xilem toward inner part
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pinnate
reticulate