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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.
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Phanerogams
Plants bearing flowers and producing seeds. Plants in which stamens and/or pistils are developed.
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Phanerocotylar
With the cotyledons visible outside the seed coat.
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Phalange
Bundle of structures fused together (e.g. stamen filaments); (In Pandanaceae) cluster of partly fused drupes or carpels falling off as a unit.
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Petiolule
Stalk of individual leaflets in a compound leaf.
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Petiolulate
With a petiolule, not sessile. Said of leaflets when having their own petioles.
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Petioloid
Resembling a petiole, but with thin strip of lamina running alongside midrib [obscure term].
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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…
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Petiolate, Petioled
With a leaf stalk, not sessile. Having a stalk or petiole Possessing a petiole.
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Petalostemonous
With the stamens fused to the corolla.
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