Category: R

Subnormal in size or number. Label word used to describe a food that has reduced calories, fat, saturated fat, cholesterol and sodium by at least 25%. Must be accompanied by information about the comparison food.  

Bent or curved downward or backward. (Of cap margin or scales) Having an edge curved up and back.  

Bent back until the apex is below the base. Lying down or leaning backward.  

Turned or bent downwards (e.g. the fruiting pedicels of some Utricularia).  

(Of style or stigma) prepared to receive pollen for pollen tube growth and fertilisation.  

The expanded part at the end of the flower stalk on which the organs of a flower (i.e. sepals, petals, stamens and carpels) are inserted; receptacles are fused in capitulate inflorescences and then the word is often used to mean the entire broadened stalk (head) on which the individual flowers develop. (In species with compound…

(Of a leaf or part of a leaf ) fused with the stem.  

The fusion of a leaf or part of the leaf with the stem.  

The plastid gene used in phylogenetics to study relationships.  

The zygomorphic florets of the margin of a head (capitulum) of the Compositae/Asteraceae when different from those of the centre (or disc) florets. The bilaterally symmetrical flower of an inflorescence in some Asteraceae, different from the radially symmetrical disc florets. One of the apparent ‘petals’ of a daisy (or composite) flower, actually a small flower.…