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  • Pinnatilobed

    Pinnately divided, with unspecified depth of division.  

  • Pinnatilobate

    Pinnatilobate

    With lobes arranged in a pinnate manner, pinnatilobed.  

  • Pinnatifid

    Pinnatifid

    Pinnately lobed, the lobes shallow. (Often used just for pinnately lobed without any specific depth to the lobes). A leaf that is pinnately cleft, but into lobes that do not reach the midrib, and not into separate leaflets. Cut until partaking of the nature of a pinnate leaf. Simple leaf that has the margin pinnately…

  • Pinnate

    Pinnate

    Divided into a central axis and several lateral ribs or leaflets (like a feather). With the same arrangement as a feather. A compound leaf with leaflets growing in 2 rows on each side of its mid-rib. With the leaflets arranged along each side of a common rachis. Can either be oddpinnate or even-pinnate. A compound…

  • Pinna, pinnae

    Pinna, pinnae

    (Particularly used in ferns) leaflet of a pinnate leaf, or first division of a pinnate leaf where this division is itself divided into leaflets. A primary segment of the blade of a compound leaf or frond. The leaflets or primary division of a pinnate leaf. A single leaflet of a pinnate leaf. The petiole of…

  • Pin-eyed flowers

    Pin-eyed flowers

    (In dimorphic flowers) the long-styled flower with relatively short stamens.  

  • Pilosulose

    With minute straight hairs [unusual term, not recommended].  

  • Pilose

    Hairy with short thin hairs (density is not specified with this term!); sometimes incorrectly used for having any kind of haircovering. With sparse slender soft hairs. Clothed with fine soft hairs.  

  • Piliform

    Shaped like, or resembling, a hair.  

  • Piliferous

    Bearing hair(s) [rather vague, not recommended].  

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