Glossary

Category: P

  • Semi-

    (Prefix) half.  

  • Pyxis

    Pyxis

    Capsule with circumscissile dehiscence, the top coming off like a lid. A pod opening by a circumscissile line; the top falling off like a lid.  

  • Pyxidium

    (Of a capsular fruit) with circumscissile dehiscence (as in Sphenocleaceae).  

  • Pyxidate

    With a pyxis [unusual term].  

  • Pyrophytic

    Growing in regularly burned areas.  

  • Pyrophyte

    Perennial plant growing in regularly burned areas, usually showing morphological and/or physiological adaptations to these habitats, usually appearing after the annual fires and before the first rains.  

  • Pyriform

    Pear-shaped (as in the fruit of Pyrus (Rosaceae)).  

  • Pyrene

    (Of a fruit) the stone, the seed plus a hard layer of endocarp (often sculptured) surrounding the seed. The nutlet, especially said of a drupe when small.  

  • Pyramidal

    Pyramidal

    Shaped like a pyramid, usually said of inflorescences that are narrow proximally and widen out gradually, the distal part being more or less flat-topped (so really shaped like an inverse pyramid). A cone-shaped part of the body, especially a cone-shaped projection on the surface of the medulla oblongata or in the medulla of the kidney.…

  • Putative

    Suggested, probable.