Category: S

A broadened bristle or scale-like unit (e.g. the pappus in Compositae/Asteraceae).  

Scaly, with small scales or bracts [unusual term, more widely used in zoology].  

A short, compact branch usually lateral to the main axis, with very short internodes, bearing leaves and/or flowers and fruit.  

Bearing a hollow slender projection or extension.  

A tapering projection, usually short and curved; A short shoot of the stem bearing leaves and/or flowers and fruit; (In flowers) a slender hollow extension (usually) of the perianth, often containing nectar. The hollow, tubular projection from the base of a petal or sepal, often producing nectar; a short side twig on a tree. A…

(Of habit) loose, not erect. Oriented outward and more or less diverging from the point of origin. A plant which grows much wider than it does tall, perhaps with mainly horizontal branches, perhaps by rooting in the ground and making an ever-expanding clump. A plant which grows much wider than it does tall, perhaps with…

(Of habit) spreading loosely, not erect, at ± right angles to the axis.  

(In pteridophytes) specialised leaf that bears spores. A modified leaf that bears or subtends the spore-bearing cases in certain plants such as ferns and cycads.  

(Of tissue) spore-producing.  

(In pteridophytes) stalked fruit case containing sporangia or spores. A hardened case in which the sporangia are placed, found in heterosporous ferns (Marsileaceae and Salviniaceae).