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  • Isomerous

    With equal numbers of parts in successive floral whorls (e.g. equal numbers of sepals, petals and stamens).  

  • Isolation

    Prevention of crossing between taxa. A mechanism of defense operating unconsciously central to obsessive-compulsive phenomena in which the affect attached to an idea is rendered unconscious, leaving the conscious idea colorless and emotionally neutral. In epidemiology, a method of controlling the spread of a communicable disease by separating the infected person from those who are…

  • Isolateral

    With structurally similar upper and lower surfaces.  

  • Isodiametric

    With an equal diameter in all directions (e.g. of venation); Roughly spherical or round.  

  • Isocotylous

    With seedling leaves (cotyledons) of the same size or shape.  

  • Isobilateral

    With structurally similar upper and lower surfaces.  

  • Iso

    Isotype.  

  • Isandrous

    With the number of stamens equal to the number of petals or sepals [unusual term]; With stamens of equal length.  

  • Isadelphous

    With diadelphous stamens, with numbers in each bundle the same.  

  • Irregular flowers

    Those of which the parts of the calyx or corolla are dissimilar in size or shape (i.e. asymmetrical or zygomorphic flowers). This name is given when members of the same sort as, for instance, the petals are unlike in shape or size. One which is not radially symmetrical, with all peta ls equal, but only…

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