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  • Phanerophyte

    In Raunkiaer’s system, a plant with growing point that survives adverse seasons as a resting bud well above the ground.  

  • Phanerogams

    Plants bearing flowers and producing seeds. Plants in which stamens and/or pistils are developed.  

  • Phanerocotylar

    With the cotyledons visible outside the seed coat.  

  • Phalange

    Bundle of structures fused together (e.g. stamen filaments); (In Pandanaceae) cluster of partly fused drupes or carpels falling off as a unit.  

  • Petiolule

    Stalk of individual leaflets in a compound leaf.  

  • Petiolulate

    With a petiolule, not sessile. Said of leaflets when having their own petioles.  

  • Petioloid

    Resembling a petiole, but with thin strip of lamina running alongside midrib [obscure term].  

  • Petiole

    Petiole

    Leaf stalk, the basal and usually narrowly cylindrical part of the leaf which carries the vascular bundles and is intermediate in position between stem and blade. The stalk of a leaf or an unexpanded section. The stalk of a leaf supporting the expanded portion. The stalk that supports the lamina; if missing, the leaf is…

  • Petiolate, Petioled

    With a leaf stalk, not sessile. Having a stalk or petiole Possessing a petiole.  

  • Petalostemonous

    With the stamens fused to the corolla.    

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