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  • Palate

    The projection on the lower corolla lip near the throat of many zygomorphic bilabiate flowers (as in Lentibulariaceae). The structure that forms the roof of the mouth. It consists of the anterior hard palate and the posterior soft palate. A projection on the lower lip enclosing the mouth as found in Lentibulariaceae and some Plantaginaceae.…

  • Palaeotropical

    Found in the tropics of the Old World, i.e. Africa and Asia.  

  • Palaceous

    Spade-shaped [very unusual term].  

  • Paedomorphic

    With some traits that were previously seen only in juveniles retained in the adult; less commonly spelled pedomorphic.  

  • Pachyphyllous

    With thick and fleshy leaves.  

  • Pachymorph

    Used for rhizomes that are short and fat and which terminate distally in a vertical culm.  

  • Pachycaul, pachycaulous

    Thick-stemmed and sparsely branched (e.g. Cycas or Encephalartos), often used of bottle-shaped trunks; pachycaul is the preferred term. A thick-stemmed and sparsely branched tree or bush with a bottle-shaped trunk.  

  • Pachycarpous

    With a thick fruit wall.  

  • Ovulode

    Sterile structures on the placenta.  

  • Ovuliferous

    Bearing ovules; for example, applied to scales in a female cone in gymnosperms.  

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