Glossary

Category: B

  • Bulliform

    Bubble-like.  

  • Bullate

    With the surface of the leaf raised in blisters or puckers between the veins, or at the base of scales (in some ferns).  

  • Bulla (plural bullae)

    (In Cycadaceae) cone scales with ± peltate head; Blisters or puckers on surface.  

  • Bulbous

    Bulbous

    (Of hairs) with an inflated base. Shaped like a bulb; having an underground storage organ made up of enlarged and fleshy scales wrapped around each other from which flowers and leaves are produced.    

  • Bulbose

    Bulb-like.  

  • Bulblet

    Bulblet

    Small bulb or bulb-like structure.  

  • Bulbiliferous

    Bulbiliferous

    Producing bulbils.  

  • Bulbil

    Bulbil

    A small, usually axillary bulb (e.g. in the axil of a leaf ) capable of developing into a new plant. A small bulb or bulblike structure growing in a leaf axil or among the florets of a flower cluster, which falls to the ground and takes root there.  

  • Bulbiform

    Shaped like a bulb, broadly ovoid and tapering distally to a point.  

  • Bulb

    Bulb

    Underground storage organ; the bud(s) enclosed by fleshy scale leaves and/or leaf bases. A short vertical, underground shoot that has modified leaves or thickened leaf bases prominently developed as food-storage organs. Modified short, underground stem surrounded by a row of fleshy leaves with thickened bases (e.g., Onion). Cluster of fleshy storage leaves gathered tightly together…