Flora of North America Glossary
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| Term | Synonyms | Category | Limitation | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| suborbicular | = subglobose, subrotund, subspheric(al), subspheroid(al) | solid shape | Broadly ellipsoid with a length:width ratio closely approaching 1:1; almost orbicular, slightly longer than broad. | |
| subpetiolar | insertion | Just below the point of petiole insertion. | ||
| subpetiolar | position | Just below the point of petiole insertion. | ||
| subrotund | = subglobose, suborbicular, subspheric(al), subspheroid(al) | solid shape | Broadly ellipsoid with a length:width ratio closely approaching 1:1; almost rotund, slightly longer than broad. | |
| subround | = subcircular; suborbicular misapplied, subrotund misapplied | plane shape | Compressed circular or very broadly elliptic, only slightly longer than wide. | |
| subsessile | = semistalked | architecture | structure | Almost sessile; having a very short, somewhat indistinct stalk. |
| subshrub | = suffrutex, undershrub | nominative | plant | Of shrub-like form but with only the base woody, bearing herbaceous branches that die back at the end of each growing season. See also bush, shrub (frutex), tree, woody clump. |
| subshrubby | > suffrutescent, suffruticose | habit | plant | Having or developing the character of a subshrub (undershrub). See also arboreous, arborescent, bushy, frutescent, fruticose, shrubby, woody-clumping. |
| subsidiary cell | STRUCTURE | One of the cytologically distinctive epidermal cells that are sometimes present in a stomate and that surround and are regularly oriented in relation to the guard cells. | ||
| subspheric(al) | = subglobose, suborbicular, subrotund, subspheroid(al) | solid shape | Broadly ellipsoid with a length:width ratio closely approaching 1:1; almost spheric(al), slightly longer than broad. | |
| subspheroid(al) | = subglobose, suborbicular, subrotund, subspheric(al) | solid shape | Broadly ellipsoid with a length:width ratio closely approaching 1:1; almost spheroid(al), slightly longer than broad. | |
| subtending | insertion | Arising from the axis just below and very near to the base of some other specified lateral structure. This term is meaningless if the structure that is subtended is not indicated. | ||
| subtending | position | Arising from the axis just below and very near to the base of some other specified lateral structure. This term is meaningless if the structure that is subtended is not indicated. | ||
| subterminal | = subapical | insertion | Lateral and just below the apex. | |
| subterminal | = subapical | position | Lateral and just below the apex. | |
| subterranean | = hypogeal, hypogeous | location | Within the ground, beneath its surface. | |
| subulate 1 | = awl-shaped | plane shape | Narrowly triangular or truncate-triangular and broadest at the base; like the outline of the lateral face of an awl. | |
| subulate 2 | = awl-shaped | solid shape | Slender, essentially terete, and straight, gradually attenuate from a relatively narrow base to a very narrow, blunt to angular apex. | |
| subvalvate | dehiscence | Incompletely or partly valvate. | ||
| succulent | texture | Herbaceous and juicy, often thickened (incrassate). | ||
| sucker | > turion | STRUCTURE | A shoot arising adventitiously from a root or stem below or at ground level. | |
| suffrutescent | < subshrubby | habit | plant | Becoming subshrubby. See also arboreous, arborescent, bushy, frutescent, fruticose, shrubby, suffruticose, woody-clumping. |
| suffrutex pl. suffrutices | = subshrub, undershrub | nominative | plant | Of shrub-like form but with only the base woody, bearing herbaceous branches that die back at the end of each growing season. See also bush, frutex (shrub), tree, woody clump. |
| suffruticose | < subshrubby | habit | plant | Having the character of a suffrutex (subshrub, undershrub). See also arboreous, arborescent, bushy, frutescent, fruticose, shrubby, suffrutescent, woody-clumping. |
| suffused | coloration | Having two or more hues, shades, and/or intensities intermingled, the contrasting components distinguishable only submacroscopically. |
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