Category: C

Pollinated when flowers are open.  

A tariff applied to determine which characters are most important in establishing putative relationships.  

Any of the alternative forms or values a given character can have (e.g. present or absent; alternate, opposite or whorled).  

Single technical difference, used to distinguish taxa; a feature of a plant The sum of a person’s relatively fixed personality traits and habitual modes of response. Character develops over time, is related to infantile solutions to particular conflicts, and is slow to change, even with psychoanalytic interventions. A feature of a plant that is used…

With a groove running along its length.  

Of pith, mostly hollow but with regular transverse walls.  

In Raunkiaer’s system, a plant whose growing point survives adverse seasons as a resting bud at or near ground level. A plant for which the growing point survives adverse seasons with a resting bud at or near the ground.  

The base of the nucellus, opposite the apex of the cotyledon(s).  

Part of an ovule where the body joins the envelope. Membranous layer holding egg yolk to thick or thin albumen.