Not like a "Dixie" cup, more like a wide coffee mug or a small bowl.Ĭyathium - Specialized structure found in the Euphorbiaceae. If in leaves then the narrow end is attached to the stem.Ĭupulate - Cup shaped. Thick yet pliable.Ĭorm - A short, erect, enlarged underground stem with overlapping, usually thin and papery leaves.Ĭorolla - Of a flower, collectively the petals, typically colored other than green and showy.Ĭorymb - Flat topped cluster of flowers with the outer flowers opening first.Ĭorymbose - With corymbs, arranged in corymbs, corymblike.Ĭuneate - Triangular. Can refer to the base (of a leaf) or the entire organ.Ĭoriaceous - With the texture of leather. Example - Many of the leaves from species in the Fabaceae such as Albizia, Cassia, or Vicia.Ĭonnate - Similar or like parts coming together and united.Ĭonnivent - Coming together without being joined.Ĭordate - "Heart" shaped. Often seen in the Brassicaceae.Ĭoma - A tuft of hairs attached to a seed.Ĭompound - Composed of two or more identical or similar parts. Often seen originating on the receptacle of flowers from the Asteraceae.Ĭlasping - A leaf base partly surrounding the stem it's attached to.Ĭlaw - The narrowed, basal portion of flower petals or sepals.
Usually green but sometimes colored in absence of petals, as in a Poinsettia.īristle - A long or short stiff trichome or hair.īulb - An underground leaf bud enclosed by many thickened, fleshy leaves or scales, often serving as a storage structure for the plant's food.Ĭalyx - The outer most portion of a flower, comprised of the sepals.Ĭanescent - Appearing gray or whitened in color due to a dense covering of fine hairs.Ĭapillary - Very fine and thin, hairlike.Ĭapsule - A dry, dehiscent fruit composed of more than one carpel,(having more than one seed).Ĭarpel - One simple pistil, or a single unit of a compound pistil.Ĭatkin - A group of unisexual flowers arranged in a spike(usually drooping).Ĭaudex - A persistent and usually woody base of a herbaceous perennial.Ĭhaff - A thin, dry bract. Often seen in leaves which appear as bipinnate however some leaf tissue remains between the divisions.īlade - The expanded part of a leaf or petal.īract - A reduced(usually) leaf like appendage usually associated with an inflorescence or just at the base of a flower or flower head. Twice pinnate.īipinnatifid - Divided twice but not completely to center. Often seen as the pappus in flowers of the Asteraceae.Īxil - The upper portion of the junction of leaf and stem, or really any organ which arises laterally from an axis or stem.īeak - Usually seen in fruits and seeds, a tapering or slender prolonged appendage.īerry - An indehiscent, pulpy fruit with more than one seed, not single seeded like a peach or cherry.īipinnate - Divided twice. Whew, that was tough one!Īwn - A stiff bristle. Example 1 - The lobes at the base of a leaf which clasps a stem.Īuriculate - Bearing an auricle. Example - The upperside of a leaf.Īlternate - Placed one at a node on different sides and heights of the axis or stem.Īndrogynous - An inflorescence in which the female(pistillate) flowers are basal and the male(staminate) flowers are apical.Īnther - The pollen bearing portion of a stamen.Īnthesis - The time period when a flower opens, from expansion to complete opening.Īntrorse - Facing or directed upward or forward, as towards the tip of a stem.Īpiculate - Terminating abruptly in a small, narrow point.Īppressed - Pressed or lying flat against something.Īuricle - A lobe or appendage. Divisible into equal halves in more than one plane.Īcuminate - Gradually tapering to a long slender point.Īcute - Abruptly tapering to a short or long point.Īdaxial - The side toward the axis. Yes, you are eating achenes.Īctinomorphic - Regular. Example 1 - Those little hard things stuck to strawberries.
Example - The underside of a leaf.Īchene - A dry, one seeded, indehiscent fruit.
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