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  • Stipel

    Stipule-like outgrowth occurring (usually in pairs) at the base of a leaflet or a pair of leaflets in some compound leaves. The stipule of a leaflet.  

  • Stipe, stipes, stem (plural stipites)

    (Of palms) an individual stem or trunk of a clustering palm; (Of ferns) the leaf stalk of a frond; The stalk inside the flower or fruit that supports the carpel(s) or gynoecium; (Of orchid flowers) a pollinium stalk, possibly derived from the anther; (In Cyperaceae) short, narrowed extension to the base of the nutlet. Stalk-like…

  • Stinging hair

    Stinging hair

    A tubular hair filled with liquid which, upon breaking, ejects the irritant liquid (e.g. in Urtica and Laportea).  

  • Stilt roots

    Stilt roots

    Lateral roots from the lower (proximal) part of the stem that reach the ground and support the plant (e.g. in Rhizophora).    

  • Stigmatose

    Provided with stigmas; With conspicuous stigmas. That portion of a style resembling a stigma in being capable of receiving the pollen.  

  • Stigmatic surface

    That part of the style/pistil receptive to pollen.  

  • Stigmatic knob

    Knob-shaped stigma; Stylehead on which a stigma sits.  

  • Stigmatic

    Stigmatic

    Relating to the stigma.  

  • Sterigma

    The small woody protuberance on conifer branches on which one or more needle leaves are inserted [unusual term]. Tapered extension of the basidium that produces the basidiospores; when broken, leaves a small portion on the basidiospore, the apiculus or hilar appendix.  

  • Stereomorphic

    Radially symmetric.  

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