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A simple anthocarpous fruit that is dispersed by movement or splitting of the calyx, hypanthium or involucre (Stuppy, pers. comm.)  

Group of flowers or fruits growing on a single stalk [horticultural term]. A device that holds a reduced hernia in place. A belt worn round the waist, with pads, to hold a hernia in place. Used for certain inflorescences with a tight grouping of large flowers held above the foliage, as in many rhododendron hybrids.…

Ending abruptly in a more or less straight line, as if cut off. With an abruptly transverse end as if cut off. Appearing as if cut off at the close. The apex appearing chopped off. As if cut off at the apex. (Of cap, gills, or spores) Chopped-off in appearance, having a flat surface, for…

Shaped like a brick-layers’ trowel, with the widest point below the middle, the base rounded and the apex sharply pointed.  

Xerophytic during part of the year but meso- or hygro-phytic during the growing season; a plant adapted to conditions in which droughts alternate with wet periods.  

Bending in reaction to some stimulus (e.g. growing towards the light is phototropism). Orientation movement of a sessile organism in response to a stimulus. Movement of curvature due to an external stimulus that determines the direction of movement. Also known as topotaxis. The automatic directing of an organism toward or away from a source of…

Ring-shaped structures on the androgynophore of Passifloraceae [specialist term]. Any part of the body shaped like a pulley, especially part of the lower end of the humerus, which articulates with the ulna, or a curved bone in the frontal bone through which one of the eye muscles passes. An anatomical part having the structure or…

(Of pollen grains) having three colpi (groove-like apertures) aligned longitudinally, equidistant around the equator.  

With flowers on different plants having three style lengths.