Category: P

‘False’ stem consisting of leaf sheaths or leaf bases, the apical meristem remaining at ground level (as in Musaceae). A false stem consisting of folded or rolled leaf bases (e.g., as in banana plants). A false stem consisting of leaf sheaths or leaf bases emerging vertically from a horizontal stem as found in Musaceae and…

(In Amaranthaceae) appendage found between the filaments that is not a modified stamen.  

With pseudostaminodes.  

A false scape, with some leaves actually on the stem (a true scape is leafless, with all leaves in a basal rosette).  

Not a true raceme, an inflorescence of reduced cymes (these often reduced to a single flower); (In orchids) specialised leafless apical portion of the stem bearing inflorescences (found in some species of Dendrobium sections Aporum and Strongyle).  

Slim proximal portion of a leaf with narrow or incurled edges that resembles a petiole.  

Appearing to consist of one member but actually consisting of several (e.g. a gynoecium with a number of carpels).  

(In ferns) recurved modified lamina margin, covering and protecting the sori.  

(Of orchids) denotes a stem that grows indefinitely although the plant retains the sympodium and produces new shoots at the base (e.g. in Dendrobium section Grastidium).  

Used by Katinas (1996) to describe forms of inflorescence in which individual inflorescence branches terminate in glomerules [unusual term].