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Ruminate endosperm
Intruded endosperm in a seed, formed by the infloding of the inner layer of the seed coat, as in nutmeg.
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Reduplicate aestivation
Folding in a flower bud in which the petals are touching with the edges valvate and reflexed.
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Quincuncial aestivation
Folding in a flower bud with two parts outside, two parts inside and with one margin inside and the other margin outside the adjacent petal.
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Proliferous buds
Adventitious buds on leaves, flowers, stems, peduncles or roots that are capable of rooting and forming independently living plants.
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Pinnulule
A leaflet of a multiply pinnate leaf.
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Phytotelma
A water body produced by terrestrial plants, often a pitcher (Cephalotaceae, Nepenthaceae, Sarraceniaceae), bamboo internodes or tree hollows, formed by leaves that hold water, as in some Bromeliaceae, Heliconiaceae, Musaceae and Dipsacus (Caprifoliaceae).
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Perfect flower
Flower that has both male and female parts.
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Parietal placentation
A form of placentation (seed positions) for an ovary in which the ovules are attached to the inner surface of the outer wall of a singlecelled syncarpous ovary.
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Paraphyletic
A group in which the closest relatives of at least one member are excluded and placed in another group.
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Panboreal
Throughout the far northern temperate zones of the world.
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