Category: S

Pollen grain with anastomosing colpi, these forming spirals, rings etc.  

(Of a flower) with united carpels.  

A multiple fruit produced by the adhesion of the fruits from several flowers (as in Morus). A fleshy, compound fruit that is formed by the fruits of several flowers (e.g., as in the pineapple) or by several carpels of a single flower, as in raspberries.  

(In cladistics) with one or more shared derived character states that identify and define a monophyletic taxon. A cladistic term used for a shared derived character state that is shared by a clade.  

With flowers and leaves appearing simultaneously.  

(In pteridophytes) compound structure with several locules, each bearing spores; Less often used for fused fruits in higher plants.  

(In Araceae) used for compressed sterile flowers [most unusual term, probably derived from synandrium].  

An androecium with the anthers cohering.  

With a discontinuous main axis, where the stem is made up of a series of superposed branches, these imitating a single main axis; with each new shoot developing from an axillary bud on the previous shoot unit; stem whose growth is continued not by the main stem but by lateral branches; sympodial inflorescences include the…

A sympodial branching system.