Category: H
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Herbarium sheet
A piece of stiff paper on which parts of dried plants are glued or mounted with thread or gummed slips.
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Herbarium label
A piece of paper glued to the herbarium sheet, on which information is written or printed listing the collector, the place and date of collection, and details of the dried plant in its original state, sometimes including local names and uses.
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Herbarium
A collection of dried plants or parts of plants that can be used for taxonomic and other studies.
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Herbaceous
An annual herb or a herb with annual stems from a perennial root; With the texture of a herb, soft and pliable or a plant with non-woody structures. Adjectival form of herb; also, leaflike in color or texture, or not woody. Herb-like; often applied to bracts, bracteoles or floral parts that are green and soft…
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Herb
Plant without a persistent woody stem above ground. Plant used for medicinal or culinary purposes. A plant, either annual, biennial, or perennial, with the stems dying back to the ground at the end of the growing season, and without woody stems. Aromatic leaves and sometimes the flowers of plants, usually of temperate origin. The word…
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Heptamerous
With parts in groups of seven.
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Hemitropous
Short for hemianatropous: halfanatropous, the ovule axis at 90° to the stalk. Nearly the same as Amphitropous.
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Hemitelioid
(Of indusium) not completely surrounding the receptacle base.
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Hemispherical
In the shape of half a sphere or globe.
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Hemiparasite
A plant that germinates without a host plant but which thereafter becomes dependant on a host.