Glossary

Category: C

  • Cinerous

    Ash-coloured, pale grey (cinereous is the preferred term).  

  • Cinereous

    Ash-coloured, pale grey. Having an ashy hue.  

  • Cincinnus

    Cincinnus

    Inflorescence with flowers appearing alternately to the right and left of one side of the sympodial axis; scorpioid cyme, or a situation in which each successive flower arises in the axil of a bract on the preceding flower stalk. Inflorescence where each successive flower arises in the axil of a bracteole on the preceding flower…

  • Cincinnate

    In the shape of a cincinnus.  

  • Ciliolate

    Ciliolate

    Fringed with very small hairs.  

  • Ciliate

    Ciliate

    Bearing a fringe of hairs along the margin. Having a fringe of hairs along a margin. Hairs along the margins only. With fine hairs on the margin. Having a fringe like eye-lashes (cilia) upon the margin.  

  • Cilia (singular cilium)

    Marginal hair(s). An eyelash. One of many tiny hair-like processes which line cells in passages in the body and by moving backwards and forwards drive particles or fluid along the passage.  

  • Cicatricose

    Scarred.  

  • Chromatographic method

    Technique used to separate and identify plant chemical compounds.  

  • Chorology

    Study of geographical distribution of plants.