Category: A

Flowering constantly [unusual term, not recommended].  

A super-species, with so much variation that several taxa are thought to be involved. A group of very closely related species, in this book treated as one.  

Forming a more complex structure (e.g. racemes aggregated into a panicle).  

In a dense mass, the individual parts touching.  

A term with several meanings; historically synonymous with compound fruit (which is preferred), both defined as being fruits that develop from more than one flower (Spjut & Thieret, 1989). Spjut and Thieret (1989) traced the confusion to Lindley (1832) who reversed the meanings of aggregate and multiple as defined by de Candolle (1813) and earlier…

Stuck together. To form into groups or clusters, or to cause things to form into groups or clusters.  

Densely crowded, but not stuck together. Densely crowded but not fused. To congregate; to form a mass.  

When viable seed is produced without fertilisation having taken place.  

Producing viable seed without fertilisation having taken place.  

Group of individuals in which reproduction is almost exclusively by asexual means.