Category: P
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Phellogen
Cork cambium, inner layer of stem or root forming phellem/cork on its outside and phelloderm on its inside.
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Phelloderm
Thin layer formed on the inside of cork cambium on stem or root, containing waxy layers against liquid loss.
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Phellem
Cork, layer formed on the outside of cork cambium on stem or root; the outer tissue layer of the phelloderm.
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Phanerophyte
In Raunkiaer’s system, a plant with growing point that survives adverse seasons as a resting bud well above the ground.
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Phanerogams
Plants bearing flowers and producing seeds. Plants in which stamens and/or pistils are developed.
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Phanerocotylar
With the cotyledons visible outside the seed coat.
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Phalange
Bundle of structures fused together (e.g. stamen filaments); (In Pandanaceae) cluster of partly fused drupes or carpels falling off as a unit.
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Petiolule
Stalk of individual leaflets in a compound leaf.
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Petiolulate
With a petiolule, not sessile. Said of leaflets when having their own petioles.
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Petioloid
Resembling a petiole, but with thin strip of lamina running alongside midrib [obscure term].