Glossary

Category: P

  • Pantoporate

    (Of pollen grain) with rounded pores all over the surface.  

  • Pannose

    With a texture like felt, with densely matted long hairs.  

  • Paniculate

    With the inflorescence a panicle. In a panicle; alike panicle.  

  • Panicle

    Panicle

    An inflorescence in which the main axis has several lateral branches, each of which is branched; (more specifically) an inflorescence in which both the main axis and any lateral branches are indeterminate (i.e. racemose or monopodial). (Linnaeus used this term in the sense of ‘a sparse inflorescence variously divided’, and this definition (if it can…

  • Pangaea

    Supercontinent combining all continents, which split up about 300 million years ago.    

  • Pandurate

    Fiddle-shaped, i.e. oblong to elliptic but constricted at the mid-point.  

  • Palynology

    Study of pollen grains and spores.  

  • Paludicolous

    Growing in swamps or marshes [rarely used term].  

  • Paludal

    Paludal

    Growing in marshy or swampy areas [rarely used term].  

  • Palmatisect

    Palmatisect

    Lobed and handshaped, the lobes almost extending to the base.