Category: A
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Flocculent
With small tufts of woolly hairs. Resembling tufts or shreds of cotton.
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Equinoctial
With flowers opening at a regular time of day.
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Cryptic
Not obvious, hidden.
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Confocal
Used for two main veins that both emerge at the base of the leaf.
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Co-dominants
The most common species occurring in a site or vegetation type.
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Biventricose
Swollen or inflated on two sides.
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Azure
(Colour) blue as the sky on a clear sunny day.
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Axillary
Arising in an axil, the point between the stem and the leaf or another organ that arises from the stem. Situated at the angle between one part of a plant and another part, e.g., a branch and a leaf. Pertaining to, or growing from, the axil (in other words, a flower or leaf). Occurring in…
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Axile
Belonging to the axis; (Of ovule placentation) attached to the axis of the ovary, or to the inner angle of the cells of a syncarpous ovary. Belonging to the axis, or occupying the axis.
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Axil
The angle between the stem and the leaf. Upper angle formed by leaf stem and supporting stem or branch. Angle formed between the stem axis and attached leaf or other appendage. The juncture of a leaf or flower with a stalk. The angle between the upper side of a leaf or branch, and the stem…