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  • Hastate

    Hastate

    (Of a leaf-base) with two ± triangular lobes pointed outwards. More or less arrowhead-shaped, but with the basal lobes divergent. Shaped like a halberd. Shaped like a late medieval pike-head known as a ‘Halberd’, used to describe the base of a leaf.  

  • Harmomegathy

    Change of shape in response to change in hydration level.  

  • Hardy

    Hardy

    Able to withstand unfavorable conditions or seasons, usually with reference to winter conditions. Capable of surviving unfavorable conditions, such as cold weather.  

  • Hardwoods

    Wood from non-coniferous trees (as opposed to coniferous tree wood, softwood). In the broad sense, denotes a non-coniferous tree, such as maple, beech, birch, oak, aspen, cherry, basswood, cottonwood, willow, alder, and so on.  

  • Haptera (singular hapteron)

    Adhesive-secreting disc-like holdfasts, root-like structures attaching the thallus of plants such as Podostemaceae to their rocky substrate.  

  • Haplostemonous

    With stamens equal in number to petals.  

  • Haplopetalous

    With petals in one series [unusual term].  

  • Haploid

    With one set of chromosomes. An organism with one basic chromosome set, symbolized by n; the normal condition of gametes in diploids. A cell with one set of chromosomes; half as many chromosomes as the normal somatic body cells contain. A characteristic of sex cells. The reduced, or n, chromosome number, characteristic of the gametophyte…

  • Haplochlamydeous

    With the perianth in a single whorl or spiral [obscure term].  

  • Hapaxanthic

    With a single flowering period, dying after flowering and possibly fruiting.  

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