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Homogonous
With all pistils and stamens of similar length.
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Homogeneous
Uniform, of one kind. Composed of things which are the same, in contrast to “heterogeneous/’which refers to a mixture. For example, in a homogeneous or “single-diagnosis” Diagnosis Related Group (DRG), all the patients have the same diagnosis; on the other hand, a heterogeneous DRG is composed of patients with a variety of diagnoses. Consisting of…
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Homogamous
With all flowers of the same kind. When the flowers are all of one kind in the head.
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Homoblastic
(Of orchids) having pseudobulbs of several internodes.
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Holophyte
A plant producing its own food through photosynthesis, i.e. neither a saprophyte nor a parasite.
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Holo-epiphyte
An obligate epiphyte, completing its life cycle on the host plant.
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Homochromous
(In Compositae/Asteraceae) with ray and disc florets the same colour.
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Homochlamydeous
With a perianth of similar segments, i.e. not clearly divided into calyx and corolla parts.
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Holo., holotype
(In nomenclature) a single specimen (usually all the material on one herbarium sheet, possibly part of a sheet or a single specimen spread over several sheets, sometimes an illustration) representing the nomenclatural type of the name of a taxon; A specimen used to assign a name to a taxon in cases of ambiguity; The voucher…
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Hoary
Covered with a thin white or grey pubescence resembling frost. Greyish-white.
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