Flora of North America Glossary
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| Term | Synonyms | Category | Limitation | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ascidiate 1 | = pitcher-bladed | architecture | leaf | Having an ascidiform (pitcher-shaped) blade; esp. in Nepenthaceae, Sarraceniaceae. |
| ascidiate 2 | = pitcher-leaved | architecture | plant | Bearing ascidiate (pitcher-bladed) leaves; esp. in Nepenthaceae, Sarraceniaceae. |
| ascidiform | = pitcher-shaped | solid shape | Having a more or less tubular, radially or bilaterally symmetrical body closed at the base and broadening toward a more or less open apex sometimes lidded or overarched by a prolongation of one side; like a pitcher. | |
| ascidium pl. ascidia | = pitcher, pitcher-blade | STRUCTURE | An ascidiform (pitcher-shaped) leaf blade, sometimes operculate (lidded), usually carnivorous; esp. in Nepenthaceae, Sarraceniaceae. | |
| asepalous | architecture | flower, perianth | Lacking sepals. | |
| aseptate | architecture | Lacking internal walls or partitions (septae). | ||
| asexual | = apomictic; > agamospermous, apogamous, aposporous, vegetative | reproduction | taxon, plant | Producing new plants by means not involving meiosis or fertilization. |
| assurgent | = ascending, upcurved | orientation | lateral structure | Spreading at the base and then curving upward or forward, the distal portion more or less parallel to the bearing structure. |
| astomatiferous | = non-stomate-bearing | architecture | Lacking stomates in the epidermis. | |
| asymmetric(al) 1 | architecture | Not divisible into essentially equal halves along any line or plane. | ||
| asymmetric(al) 1 | plane shape | Not divisible into essentially equal halves along any line or plane. | ||
| asymmetric(al) 1 | solid shape | Not divisible into essentially equal halves along any line or plane. | ||
| asymmetric(al) 2 | architecture | flower | Having the perianth members in whorls that are irregular and/or unequal in number of members. | |
| atropous | = orthotropous | orientation | ovule | Having the (straight) ovule sessile or funiculate and divaricate, the micropyle facing away from the ovary wall (placenta). |
| attenuate 1 | = concave-tapered | base | Gradually diminishing in width or diameter toward the proximal end, the sides longitudinally concave. Corresponds with acuminate for apex shape. | |
| attenuate 2 | = tapered | plane shape | Gradually diminishing in width from one end to the other. | |
| attenuate 2 | = tapered | solid shape | Gradually diminishing in breadth or diameter from one end to the other. | |
| auricle | = ear | STRUCTURE | A small, rounded, lateral lobe at the base of a laminar structure, lying in more or less the same plane as the remainder of the lamina. | |
| auriculate | = eared | base | laminar structure | Having two small, rounded, lateral lobes, one to either side, that lie in more or less the same plane as the remainder of the lamina. |
| auriform | = ear-shaped | solid shape | Resembling a mammalian outer ear. | |
| autogamous | = automictic, idiogamous, self-fertilizing, selfing; > geitonogamous | reproduction | taxon | Having fertilization regularly involving gametes derived from the same plant. |
| automictic | = autogamous, idiogamous, self-fertilizing, selfing; > geitonogamous, | reproduction | taxon | Having fertilization regularly involving gametes derived from the same plant. |
| autotrophic | nutrition | plant | Independent of other organisms for its nourishment, itself synthesizing all essential substances not directly available from the non-living environment. | |
| awl-shaped 1 | = subulate | plane shape | Narrowly triangular or truncate-triangular and broadest at the base; like the outline of the lateral face of an awl. | |
| awl-shaped 2 | = subulate | solid shape | Slender, essentially terete, and straight, gradually attenuate from a relatively narrow base to a very narrow, blunt to angular apex. |
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