Category: M
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Monochasial
Adjective of monochasium.
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Monocarpous
With a single carpel.
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Monocarpic
Flowering (and possibly fruiting) only once, then dying. A plant which flowers only once in its life and then dies, for example Agave Americana and the fishtail palm (Caryota urens). A plant which flowers only once in its life and then dies, for example. Agave victoriae-reginae and the talipot palm (Corypha umbraculifera).
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Monocarp
Annual or other plant that flowers and fruits only once, then dies.
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Moniliform
Like a string of beads, cylindrical and constricted at regular intervals, nearly the same as torulose, but that is slightly more irregular or slightly flattened. Contracted at intervals.
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Monanthous
One-flowered.
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Monandrous
With one stamen. Having only one stamen.
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Monadelphous
(Of stamens) in one bundle and connate by the filaments (e.g. in Malvaceae). In one brotherhood; referring to stamens with their filaments coalescent into a single tube. Said of stamens when united by their filaments into one set. Arranged in a bundle fused by their filaments, as for stamens.
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Monad
(Of pollen) solitary pollen grain, as opposed to tetrad or polyad.
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Module
(Of orchids) a set of components that may be duplicated as parts of a larger unit, as in the sympodial architecture of the Dendrobieae, whose module (usually determinate) includes rhizome segment, roots, stem, leaves, and inflorescences.