Category: S

Almost terete.  

Standing below and close to another organ (as a bracteole to a flower).  

(Usually followed by “by”) axillary to another organ below the organ under discussion.  

Material in which a plant is growing or to which it is attached. A substance upon which an enzyme acts. The substance on which an enzyme acts. The medium on which microorganisms grow. The material on which the fruit body is found and from which the fungus obtains its nourishment. A substance which is acted…

Almost like a spike, but with all or some flowers with short stalks.  

Subdivision of species, each subspecies being geographically or ecologically isolated from each other and with fewer distinguishing characters than demarcate a species; often used merely in a hierarchical sense of being between a species and a variety. A category intermediate in rank between species and variety, based on a smaller number of correlated characters than…

Subspecies; the alternative contraction ssp. is not recommended.  

Small shrub with partially herbaceous stems. Usually a plant with stems that are woody at the base but mostly herbaceous. A perennial with more or less permanent aboveground but hardly woody stems, such as many pelargoniums (‘geraniums’), or thyme.  

Nearly sessile, with a very short stalk.  

Almost scapose, with leaves in a rosette at ground level and a single flowering stalk, but not quite (e.g. with a few leaves on the stalk).