Category: P

Chaffy, chaff-like in texture; Covered with small erect weak scales.  

(In Compositae/Asteraceae) one of the chaffy scales or thin often colourless bracts amongst the flowers on the receptacle; (In Gramineae/Poaceae) the inner of the two bracts enclosing the floret. The chaff of composite receptacles. A chaffy scale, in particular in Poaceae used for the inner of the two bracts enclosing a floret.  

The projection on the lower corolla lip near the throat of many zygomorphic bilabiate flowers (as in Lentibulariaceae). The structure that forms the roof of the mouth. It consists of the anterior hard palate and the posterior soft palate. A projection on the lower lip enclosing the mouth as found in Lentibulariaceae and some Plantaginaceae.…

Found in the tropics of the Old World, i.e. Africa and Asia.  

Spade-shaped [very unusual term].  

With some traits that were previously seen only in juveniles retained in the adult; less commonly spelled pedomorphic.  

With thick and fleshy leaves.  

Used for rhizomes that are short and fat and which terminate distally in a vertical culm.  

Thick-stemmed and sparsely branched (e.g. Cycas or Encephalartos), often used of bottle-shaped trunks; pachycaul is the preferred term. A thick-stemmed and sparsely branched tree or bush with a bottle-shaped trunk.  

With a thick fruit wall.