Flora of North America Glossary
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| Term | Synonyms | Category | Limitation | Definition |
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| gelatinous | texture | Jelly-like; soft, moist, continuously cohesive, texturally homogeneous, somewhat resilient, and easily cut. | ||
| geminate | = conjugate, paired | arrangement | Inserted by pairs, the members of each fused or not. | |
| geminicolpate | architecture | pollen grain | Having four or more surficial grooves (colpi) disposed in pairs. | |
| gemma pl. gemmae | STRUCTURE | A vegetative propagule by which a gametophyte reproduces asexually; produced by a process analogous to budding, from a more or less cupulate specialized area (gemmae cup) on the surface of the plant body (thallus); in Psilotophyta, Lycopodiophyta, Equisetophyta, Polypodiophyta. | ||
| geniculate | = kneed | solid shape | Elongate, abruptly bent, somewhat thicker at the angle, and appearing as though articulate like a leg at the knee. | |
| germination 1 | CHARACTER | The process wherein a dormant embryo resumes active metabolism and growth, the primary root and shoot emerging from the seed coat, the young sporophyte thereupon entering the seedling stage. | ||
| germination 2 | CHARACTER | The process wherein the contents of a spore begin active growth, exiting the confines of the spore wall via a pore or crack and giving rise to a gametophyte. | ||
| gibbous | solid shape | Bulging unilaterally near the base. | ||
| gigantic | size | plant | Strongly enlarged; unusually or unexpectedly very large throughout. | |
| glabrate | = near-bald | pubescence | Nearly glabrous, with only a very sparse covering of trichomes. | |
| glabrescent | = balding | pubescence | Becoming glabrous (bald, psilate) with age. | |
| glabrous | = bald, psilate | pubescence | Lacking trichomes. | |
| gland | > nectary | STRUCTURE | An anatomically distinct multicellular structure that produces and exudes a particular substance, or resembles those that do. | |
| glandless | = eglandular | architecture | Lacking glands. | |
| glandular 1 | architecture | Having one or more glands. | ||
| glandular 2 | exudation | Anatomically distinct and producing and exuding a particular substance. | ||
| glans pl. glandes | = acorn | nominative | fruit | A nut subtended by a persistent, hard, cap-like involucre of numerous, coherent, imbricate bracts; esp. in Fagaceae. |
| glaucescent | < ceraceous, cereous, pruinose, waxen, waxy | coating | Becoming glaucous with age. See also caesious. | |
| glaucous | < ceraceous, cereous, pruinose, waxen, waxy | coating | Whitish pruinose; covered with a thin, opaque, whitish deposit (bloom) of macroscopically indistinguishable waxy particles that rubs off easily. See also caesious, glaucescent. | |
| glittering | = splendent | reflectance | Interruptedly glossy (laevigate, lustrous, polished, shining, shiny, and thus sparkling when viewed from changing angles. | |
| globose | = globular, orbicular, rotund, spheric(al), spheroid(al) | solid shape | Uniformly convex, circular in any median section and in outline when viewed from any angle; like a globe or sphere. | |
| globular | = globose, orbicular, rotund, spheric(al), spheroid(al) | solid shape | Uniformly convex, circular in any median section and in outline when viewed from any angle; like a globe or sphere. | |
| glochid | = glochidium; < bristle, capillus, hair, seta, trichome | STRUCTURE | A capillus (hair) or bristle (seta) that bears one or more barbs; esp. in Cactaceae. | |
| glochidiate | pubescence | Bearing glochids (glochidia). | ||
| glochidium pl. glochidia | = glochid; < bristle, capillus, hair, seta, trichome | STRUCTURE | A capillus (hair) or bristle (seta) that bears one or more barbs; esp. in Cactaceae. |
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