Flora of North America Glossary
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| Term | Synonyms | Category | Limitation | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| canaliculate | = channeled | solid shape | Having a longitudinal, transversely rounded depression; esp. a petiole or petiolule. | |
| cancellate | = clathrate, latticed | architecture | foliaceous structure | Having portions of the blade naturally devoid of any but vascular tissue, which forms an open lattice in those areas. |
| cane | < culm, stem | STRUCTURE | A woody, aboveground culm. Use of this term or culm instead of stem is a matter of tradition and preference, not of descriptive precision or necessity. | |
| canescent | = hoary | pubescence | Densely covered with gray, fine, relatively short, capillate trichomes. | |
| cap cell | STRUCTURE | The single cell, or one of the several cells, forming the uppermost (distal) portion of an antheridial wall. | ||
| capillary | = capillate, hair-like | solid shape | Finely filiform; like a hair. | |
| capillate | = capillary, hair-like | solid shape | Finely filiform; like a hair. | |
| capillus pl. capilli | = hair; > glochid, glochidium; < cilium, trichome | STRUCTURE | A hair-like trichome. | |
| capitate 1 | = headed | architecture | inflorescence | Comprising one or more capitula. |
| capitate 2 | = headed | solid shape | Abruptly enlarged distally to a relatively short, terminal portion that is basically round in transverse section. | |
| capitate 3 | = capitiform, head-shaped | solid shape | Basically globose and resembling a head in the context of occurrence. | |
| capitiform | = capitate, head-shaped | solid shape | Basically globose and resembling a head in the context of occurrence. | |
| capitulescence | architecture | Mode or progressive pattern of bearing capitula (heads); most appropriately described using adjectival terms; esp. in Asteraceae (Compositae). | ||
| capitulum pl. capitula | = head | nominative | inflorescence | Having crowded, sessile or subsessile, small flowers (florets) borne upon an expanded, distally plane or convex, sometimes paleate, compound receptacle (torus), often with a surrounding involucre, and sometimes a subtending calyculus; characteristic of Asteraceae (Compositae). |
| capsular | architecture | fruit | Having the structure and texture of a capsule. | |
| capsule | nominative | fruit | Dry, longitudinally or poricidally dehiscent, and derived from a compound ovary with one or more locules; containing one or more seeds. See also pyxis. | |
| carina 1 pl. carinae | = keel | STRUCTURE | An elongate, median longitudinal ridge that is basically triangular in transverse section and resembles the keel of a boat; esp. in leaf blades and sheaths, glumes, lemmata, paleae, sepals, petals. | |
| carina 2 pl. carinae | = keel | STRUCTURE | Collectively, the two relatively small, connate or coherent, abaxial (lower) petals that form the keel-like portion of a papilionaceous corolla. | |
| carinal | aestivation | Having the petals of the keel (carina) enclosing the others. | ||
| carinate | = keeled | solid shape | Having an elongate median longitudinal ridge that is basically triangular in transverse section, resembling the keel of a boat; esp. a leaf blade or sheath, glume, lemma, palea, sepal or petal. | |
| cariniform | = keel-shaped | solid shape | Elongate, basically triangular in transverse section, tapering at one or both ends, the outer edge thus somewhat arcuate, the whole resembling the keel of a boat. | |
| carnivorous | > insectivorous | nutrition | plant | Capturing animals (usually insects), digesting their tissues by means of exoenzymes secreted by specialized cells or tissues, and assimilating the digested substances as nourishment, especially for nitrogen. |
| carnose | = fleshy, sarcous | texture | Fairly firm and dense, juicy or at least moist, and easily cut. | |
| carpel | < macrosporophyll (not recommended), megasporophyll, pistil | STRUCTURE | A more or less abstract unit of floral structure conceptually equivalent to a simple pistil or its putative evolutionary precursor (megasporophyll) or derivative (constituent of compound pistil); often regarded as the basic evolutionary unit of the gynoecium. | |
| …carpellate | = …carpelled | architecture | flower, gynoecium, pistil, ovary, fruit | Deemed to have or to consist of the number of carpels indicated by the prefix; as in polycarpellate,tricarpellate, unicarpellate. |
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