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Proteranthy
Flowers developing when the plant is leafless.
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Proteranthous
Producing flowers before the new leaves sprout, or after the leaves have fallen.
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Proterandrous
Old spelling of protandrous.
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Protandry
Stamens releasing pollen before the stigma in the same flower is receptive.
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Protandrous
(Of a flower) shedding pollen before the stigma is receptive, i.e. first functionally male and afterwards functionally female.
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Prostrate
Lying flat on the ground. Trailing on the ground; flat; procumbent. Lying flat upon the ground; typically without adventitious roots. Lying horizontally. A plant of low-growing, ground hugging habit, such as the prostrate junipers. Lying face down. A plant of low-growing, ground-hugging habit, such as the prostrate junipers. Lying with the body extended, usually face…
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Prostelic
When an axis consists of a single concentric bundle.
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Prop root
Root growing out of the lower stem or branch and into the soil. Root growing from the lower stem or branches that curves down and roots in the soil, as in Rhizophoraceae, Pandanaceae and many Ficus (Moraceae).
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Prophyll
(In Gramineae/Poaceae and Cyperaceae) the 2-keeled hyaline leaflet at the base of, and on the upper/adaxial side of, side branches; (In palms) the bract at the base of the inflorescence enveloping the inflorescence in bud; One or two of the first leaves of a lateral branch, different from the other leaves on that branch [old-fashioned…
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Pro parte
(Of a taxon name) partly (for example, used when discussing only part of a series of specimens cited for one taxon in a publication).
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