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  • Erose

    Irregularly toothed, eroded, appearing as if nibbled. Gnawed, as if chewed upon.  

  • Ericoid

    Ericoid

    Typical of a heathland plant; With small needle-like leaves.  

  • Ericaceous

    Ericaceous

    Related to, or resembling, plants of the heath genus Erica (e.g. ericaceous leaves are short and very narrow).  

  • Eremean

    From regions with low irregular rainfall [unusual term].  

  • Erecto-patent

    Between spreading and erect.  

  • Erect

    Erect

    Standing upright; perpendicular. Upright; standing vertically or directly perpendicular from a surface. Standing up almost vertically, applied to stems, branches, leaves or inflorescences.  

  • Eramous

    Without branches, With an unbranched stem [unusual term].  

  • Eracemose

    Not part of the raceme; Without a raceme [not a favoured term].  

  • Equitant

    Equitant

    With the base of one leaf clasping the base of the next leaf up and opposite, which in turn clasps the base of the next. Riding astraddle. With the base of the leaf clasping the stem or the leaf above it and which in turn clasps the next leaf above; not referring to a leaf…

  • Equinoctial

    Equinoctial

    With flowers opening at a regular time of day.  

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