Glossary

Category: A

  • Accumbent

    Lying against (for example, the cotyledons against the radicle).  

  • Accrescent

    Increasing in length or thickness with age (for example, the calyx after flowering).  

  • Accessory

    (Of buds) additional to axillary buds, and assuming their function; (Of branches) secondary branches; (Of fruits) false fruits, conspicuous but without function other than attraction; A fruit (or group of fruits) conspicuous by parts that are not part of the pistil; anthocarp; (In fern anatomy) stellar perforation not linked to frond insertion. Fruit formed from…

  • Accepted

    In nomenclature, a name or epithet accepted by an author who adopts it as the correct one.  

  • Acaulous

    Without a stem, or without a visible stem.  

  • Acaulescent

    Acaulescent

    Without a stem (preferred term for this is acaulous; the ending -escent implies change). More or less stemless, the stem often subterranean.  

  • Acarpous

    Without fruit.  

  • Acarpic

    Without fruit; the more common term is acarpous.  

  • Acarophytic

    (Of a plant) harbouring mites.  

  • Acarodomatia

    Acarodomatia

    Small pockets in leaves, in the axils of the veins on the abaxial surface, theoretically harbouring mites (Acari); usually contracted to ‘domatia’.