Category: S

  • Stratified

    Growing in distinct horizontal layers. Made of several layers.  

  • Strap-shaped

    Strap-shaped

    Narrow, with straight margins. (Of a leaf, petal, etc) flat, parallel-sided and blunt-ended.  

  • Stramineous

    (Colour) straw-like, straw-coloured, very pale dull yellow.  

  • Straggling

    Growing irregularly and untidily.  

  • Storey

    Layer of rain-forest or other forest where vegetation seems to be layered (e.g. understorey, mid-storey or canopy).  

  • Stool shoot

    A shoot or new stem/branch emerging from (near) the base of the plant, especially when the stem has been cut; Several stems arising from the same root.  

  • Stone

    Hard endocarp of a drupe. Same as calculus. A measure of weight equal to 14 pounds or 6.35 kilograms. The inner fruit wall of a drupe, when of a hard, bony or woody nature. The stone incloses the seed. Plums and cherries have stones. Stones, also referred to as calculi, form as a consequence of…

  • Stomium

    Zone of dehiscence; for example, on a sporangium or on an anther.  

  • Stomatal subsidiary cells

    Additional modified cells lying outside the guard cells of stomata.  

  • Stoloniferous

    Bearing stolons; With runners or propagative shoots rooting at the tip to produce new plants. A plant that tends to form lateral roots, sometimes green and potentially stemming, sometimes blanched and tending to root from the nodes or both. Producing stolons or rooting shoots. Having stolons.