Category: P

  • Phellogen

    Cork cambium, inner layer of stem or root forming phellem/cork on its outside and phelloderm on its inside.  

  • Phelloderm

    Thin layer formed on the inside of cork cambium on stem or root, containing waxy layers against liquid loss.  

  • Phellem

    Cork, layer formed on the outside of cork cambium on stem or root; the outer tissue layer of the phelloderm.  

  • Phanerophyte

    In Raunkiaer’s system, a plant with growing point that survives adverse seasons as a resting bud well above the ground.  

  • Phanerogams

    Plants bearing flowers and producing seeds. Plants in which stamens and/or pistils are developed.  

  • Phanerocotylar

    With the cotyledons visible outside the seed coat.  

  • Phalange

    Bundle of structures fused together (e.g. stamen filaments); (In Pandanaceae) cluster of partly fused drupes or carpels falling off as a unit.  

  • Petiolule

    Stalk of individual leaflets in a compound leaf.  

  • Petiolulate

    With a petiolule, not sessile. Said of leaflets when having their own petioles.  

  • Petioloid

    Resembling a petiole, but with thin strip of lamina running alongside midrib [obscure term].