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Littoral
Growing along a shore of the sea, a lake or a river.
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Litter-trapper
Plant with special structures to catch litter and gain nutrients.
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Kew
Village in Richmond, United Kingdom, where the Royal Botanic Gardens are situated, where the authors of this book work and where many of the photographs in this book were taken.
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Infraspecific taxa
Taxonomic categories below the rank of species (e.g. subspecies, variety, forma).
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Infrapetiolar
Between the petioles on the stem.
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Infrageneric taxa
Taxonomic categories below the rank of genus (e.g. subgenus, section, species, subspecies, variety).
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Included veinlet
Small vein that terminates in an areole formed by other veins.
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Gynobasic style
The situation in which the style arises in the centre at the base of the ovary as in many Lamiaceae, Boraginaceae and Allium (Amaryllidaceae).
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Fern allies
Colloquial term used to describe other seedless vascular plants that are not ferns, generally now considered simply as ferns or lycopods.
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Evolution
The cumulative change in characters of a group of organisms over time. Changes in the characteristics of living things as a result of an interruption in the genetic equilibrium of the species. Forces of evolution are chiefly gene mutation, natural selection, and genetic drift. A process of change in organisms which takes place over a…
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