Category: A

  • Apostapetalum

    That part of the corolla tube and lobes above the zone with fused/adnate stamens [unusual term].  

  • Aposporous

    (In ferns) where prothalli are formed directly from outgrowths from the frond.  

  • Aposepalous

    With the sepals separate, not connate.  

  • Apophytic

    Indigenous but growing in a humaninfluenced habitat (mainly a continental European term).  

  • Apophyte

    A native plant that has invaded disturbed land such as abandoned fields.  

  • Apophysis

    Enlargement on the stem or stalk; The part of the cone scale that remains exposed when the cone is closed. A growth of bone, not at a joint. A projection, especially from a bone (e.g., a tubercle); an outgrowth without an independent center of ossification. An osseous projection develops at the point where a tendon…

  • Apopetalous

    With the petals separate, not fused.  

  • Apomorphy, apomorphic

    (Of a character in cladistics) derived.  

  • Apomixy, apomyxis

    The process of asexual reproduction.  

  • Apomictic

    Of a taxon reproducing asexually. Reproducing by seed but without fertilization by the pollen nucleus (though sometimes stimulated by pollination), so that the resulting seedlings are genetically identical to the mother plant. Plant varieties that habitually reproduce thus are called apomicts.