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A philosophy of classification that arranges organisms by their common ancestry, based on the branching of the evolutionary family tree, as perceived by shared character states. Initially popularized by Willi Hennig’s 1950 book entitled Phylogenetic Systematics, cladistics is a system oftaxonomic classification of organisms (and/or their specimens) that is based upon (determined) similar lines of…

To do with branching patterns of descent in which perceived relationships are based on selected shared characters.  

Group of plants evolved from common ancestor. The taxonomic sub-groups within cladistics. An exclusive group of plants in which each member is more closely related to the others than any member is to a member of another group. A term which originally referred to a group of descendants from a single biological organism, that is,…

Barbed whip-tip extension of leaf midrib (specialist term in Palmae, 1986). A gelatinous matrix in which ascospores of ascomycetes are shed.  

Resembling a tendril.  

Bearing tendrils.  

With a narrow spiral tip that is a continuation of the midvein [unusual term].  

Both terms are valid, as the root term is cirrus or cirrhus.  

Bearing a cirrus.