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Glossary
... " since that would be redundant. fern A vascular plant bearing spores (rather than seeds), with flattened leaflike "fronds" further divided. Some flowering plants (Achillea, yarrow; Conium maculatum, poison-hemlock; and the common ...
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Bamboo
... develop from scaly, underground stems called rhizomes that bear roots at the nodes where the leaflike scales are attached. Giant reed (Arundo donax), a tall, bamboo-like grass that is ... very hard because they contain silica and lignin. A beautiful cutting board made from numerous flattened strips of bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens) glued together. Through a specialized heating process, the natural ...
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Vegetative Terminology (Part 3)
... The flattened, leaflike stems arise from the axils of true leaves. Right: Sydney golden wattle (Acacia longifolia), an Australian shrub commonly grown in southern California. The leaves are technically flattened ... Acacias In the above photos, each minute, scalelike leaf (red arrow) has a flattened, leaflike branchlet called a cladode or cladophyll in its axil. These cladophylls function like leaves ...
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CSSA Newsletters #27
... short cylindrical, distinctly tuberculate. Ribs absent. Tubercles long, somewhat leaflike, triangular in cross section, 4 - 5 inches long, with terminal areoles. Spines flattened, flexible, papery, often twisted, yellowish, to 6 inches long ...
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Orchid Glossary - The Plant-Its Parts
... or set form, formless. Ancipitous (an-SIP-ih-tus) -- Having two edges and being flattened. Some pseudobulbs have this characteristic, e.g. Laelia rubens. Antrose (AN-tross) -- The characteristic ... -- Pertains to the parts of the flower, such as petals, sepals, ect. Sheath (SHEETH) -- Any leaflike structure in orchids that envelops the developing buds and emerging pseudobulbs. Shoot (SHOOT) -- The ...
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Orchid Glossary - The Stem, Leaf, And Their Parts
... gently from the base to the apex. Blade (BLAYD) -- The flattened, expanded portion of the leaf. Bract (BRAKT) -- The leaflike structure that subtends a flower, leaf or stem. Bracteiform (BRAK ... (KLAV-ayt) -- Club-shaped with the thickening increasing towards the apex. Compressed (kom-PRESSED) -- Flattened, usually laterally. Conduplicate (kon-DOO-pli-kayt) -- Said of leaves, or other plant parts ...
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Macroclinium bicolor Culture
... , egg-shaped pseudobulb is laterally flattened and completely concealed by leaf-sheaths. The thick sheaths are densely clustered, folded longitudinally along the midvein, with a longitudinally folded, leaflike blade at the apex ...
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Oncidium onustum Culture
... egg- or pear-shaped pseudobulbs, which are lightly flattened, are green with irregular brown-black markings. Each pseudobulb is protected by well-developed leaflike sheaths at the base. LEAVES: 1. The leaf ... -arching peduncle emerges from the base of the pseudobulb along the longitudinal fold in the leaflike sheath. FLOWERS: 8-14. Yellow blossoms are carried on a nicely spaced raceme along the ...
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Jay's Internet Orchid Species Photo Encyclopedia - Me - Ny
... SUBFAMILY Epidendroideae, TRIBE Maxillareae SUBTRIBE Oncidiinae. The 7 orchids in this genus are epiphytes with flattened pseudobulbs with one or two leaves at the apex, a lateral, paniculate inflorescence with several ... through Brazil and into Peru. They have 1 or 2 leaves on the psuedobulb with leaflike sheaths from which the inflorescence arises having non spurred flowers with free sepals and ...
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... a smooth edge without teeth or lobes (they are entire) and there are no little leaflike structures at the point where the leaf stem is connected to the plant stem (stipules ... size when compared to the petals. stipe -The stalk of any plant structure. umbel - A flattened inflorescence in which the florets are borne on stems that appear to come from one ...
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