Glossary

Category: F

  • Favulariate

    (Of a surface) finely ribbed, the ribs separated by zig-zag furrows [obscure term].  

  • Favose

    (Of a surface) pitted like a honeycomb.  

  • Faveolate

    (Of a surface) pitted like a honeycomb. Honey-combed.  

  • Faux

    Upper part of the throat of a calyx or corolla.  

  • Faucal

    Having to do with the throat of the corolla or calyx [unusual term, not recommended].  

  • Fastigiate

    Fastigiate

    (Of branches) erect and closely parallel, ‘bundled’, and coming from a common point. Upright, close and parallel. Bundled, erect and closely parallel structures emerging from one point.  

  • Fasciculate

    Fasciculate

    (Of erect branches) in close bundles.  

  • Fasciclodes

    Sterile fascicles (e.g. in the stamens of some Guttiferae/Clusiaceae).  

  • Fascicled

    In bundles or close groups. Clustered. Growing in a bundle.  

  • Fascicle

    Fascicle

    A cluster of similar organs (e.g. leaves or flowers) arising from more or less the same point. A close cluster. Fasciculi, small bundle of nerve, muscle, or tendon fibers; also called fasciculus.