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(In Gramineae/Poaceae florets) minute scales between the lemma and fertile flower parts, possibly representing the perianth.  

(In Cyperaceae, Gramineae/Poaceae) elongated or reduced axis with 1–many glumes, each glume subtending a bisexual or unisexual flower.  

The site where the type of a plant species was originally collected.  

When a ripe capsule splits into the cells, i.e. splits not at the lines of junction between the locules (i.e. septa) but along the midrib or dorsal suture (e.g. in many Liliaceae). Dehiscent along the midrib of a carpel of an ovary containing more than one chamber and carpel. Splitting through the middle of the…

The cavity of the carpel in which the ovule or ovules are borne; The compartment of an anther in which the pollen is borne; The cavity in a sporangium. A compartment, the cavity of the carpel in which the ovules are formed or the compartment of the anther in which the pollen is formed. A…

With cavities or compartments, usually of ovaries and fruits: unilocular meaning one-celled; bilocular, two-celled.  

Locule [obscure term].  

Divided into small compartments, as in a cavity divided into smaller subcavities.  

From the Latin loco citato, ‘in the place mentioned’.  

A small lobe, often on a lobe. A small section of a lobe in the lung, formed of acini. A subdivision of a part or organ that can be distinguished from the whole by boundaries, such as septa, that are visible with or without a microscope. For example, the lobule of the liver is a…