Category: P

  • Pilose

    Hairy with short thin hairs (density is not specified with this term!); sometimes incorrectly used for having any kind of haircovering. With sparse slender soft hairs. Clothed with fine soft hairs.  

  • Piliform

    Shaped like, or resembling, a hair.  

  • Piliferous

    Bearing hair(s) [rather vague, not recommended].  

  • Pileus

    (In Pandanaceae fruits) the upper (stigmatic) part of the phalange or part-fruit. The cap of a mushroom, bolete, polypore, tooth fungus, chanterelle, and so on.  

  • Pileiform

    Shaped like a cap.  

  • Pigmented

    Coloured. Showing an unusual colour.  

  • Phytomere

    (In grasses) a segment of the shoot that includes an internode together with the leaf and a portion of the node at the upper end of the internode, and a bud and portion of the node at the lower end.  

  • Physiological

    Based on function and physiology, relating to the science of plant (parts) function and processes. Relating to the study of the mechanical, physical, and biochemical functions of a living organism. Referring to physiology and the regular functions of the body. Relating to the operation of an organ, influenced by the interplay of its physical and…

  • Phylum

    The taxonomic rank below Kingdom and above Class, e.g. Pteridophyta or Anthophyta. In taxonomy, one of the primary divisions of a kingdom, one division higher than a class.  

  • Phylogram

    Tree-like diagram depicting relationships.