Category: M

A sporangium that produces microspores, but is not necessarily smaller than the megasporangium.  

Species described based on minute differences, often used in apomictic taxa such as Taraxacum or Rubus.  

(In the ovule) an opening in the integuments through which the pollentube may enter the seed and through which the radicle usually emerges during germination. A little opening in the integument which forms the outer layer of an ovule or a seed. The pollen tube enters the ovule through this opening. An opening in the…

With minute dots or translucent glands.  

Leaf size class proposed by Raunkiaer (1934): between 226 and 2025 mm2; The leaves of Lycopodiopsida (clubmosses) with a single unbranched vascular vein. Leaf of a lycopod, which has a single unbranched vein and usually simple structure.    

(Of a surface) minutely granulate.  

Very local climatic condition, restricted to a particular habitat (e.g. rock crevices).  

Prefix, meaning minutely (e.g. microvesiculate, with minute vesicles). Prefix for units of measurement, one millionth part (i.e. 10-6); symbol μ (or sometimes me). In sociology, a level of analysis that searches for relationships within a single institution or within the smaller segments of society sociologists are chiefly concerned with the psychology of the situation rather…

Condition in which the stigma is receptive before pollen from that individual is released.  

Constructive chemical changes in a living cell. The sum of all chemical processes occurring within a living cell or organism. The processes of interconversion of chemical compounds in the body. Anabolism is the process of forming larger and more complex compounds, commonly linked to the utilisation of metabolic energy. Catabolism is the process of breaking…