Category: F

Very flattened; (In stems) abnormally flattened and widened, often the result of abnormal fusion of parts.  

Covered with a meal-like powder.  

Mealy, resembling flour Surface covered with small white particles. Mealy in texture. An odor or taste of freshly ground flour meal; mealy. Referring to flour, or containing starch.  

Higher taxonomic unit composed of one genus or several/many related genera, usually clearly separated from other families. A group of related plants or animals forming a category ranking above a genus and below an order and usually comprising several to many genera. A collection of closely related genera. A group of genera with similar characteristics;…

(In ferns) a line across the lamina surface where surface cells are elongate, giving the appearance of a vein but not connected to real veins with vascular tissue.  

(In ferns) the reflexed frond margin covering the sorus.  

(Of cultivated land) resting, without crops for a season or two.  

In Iris, one of the outer perianth segments which is narrow at the base but expands into a broad pendulous blade. The lower three petals of an ins, which project out and down (the upright ones are called “standards”). The American term for autumn; each of the lower three petals of an iris.  

Curved like a scythe or sickle. Sickle-shaped.