Glossary

Category: G

  • Glutinous

    Covered with a sticky substance. (Of cap or stem) Having a thick layer of mucous-like, sticky material that pulls away from the surface in long strands.    

  • Glume

    The bract(s), usually occurring in pairs, at the base of a grass or sedge spikelet.  

  • Glumaceous

    Resembling the husk of a grain; A bract that appears to be a glume but is not [obscure term].  

  • Glomeruliform

    Shaped like a glomerule.  

  • Glomerulescence

    A dense cluster of glomerules, as sometimes found in Compositae/Asteraceae [obscure term].  

  • Glomerule

    A dense cluster of (sub)sessile flowers or of small capitula.  

  • Glomerulate

    Diminutive of glomerate (glomerate is much more widely used).  

  • Glomerate

    Glomerate

    Compactly clustered, collected into a dense group or head. Closely aggregated into a dense cluster.  

  • Glochidiate

    Beset with barbed bristles. Hairs barbed at the tip only, as in the hairs of certain cacti.  

  • Glochid

    Glochid

    Barbed bristle. A small barbed hairlike spine. A barbed hair; a bristle; commonly used in reference to the minute bristles at the base of each spine of the Opuntia genus. Hairlike spines on the areoles of cacti; they detach easily.