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BOTANICAL GLOSSARY
Glossary of commonly used botanical terms and their definitions. Use the search bar below to look up a botanical term.
15 Random Botanical Terms
UPL - Upland - Nonhydrophyte. Almost never occurs in wetlands.
Parallel venation - Main veins running from base to apex of leaf.
Unisexual - A flower that possesses either stamens or carpels but not both.
Caudate - Tapering gradually into a long taillike tip
Tubercle - A more or less pyramidal knob rising from the stem surface of a cactus and having an areole on or near its summit.
Infructescence - A group of fruits and associated parts arising from an inflorescence. An inflorescence with mature or maturing fruit.
Vein - A rib of tissue, usually in a leaf.
Whorled - Three or more leaves or flowers arranged in a circle around a stem.
Obcordate - Inversely cordate, heart-shaped with petiole attached to point.
Distal - Toward the top of a plant or the tip of a plant part. Cf, Proximal.
Actinomorphic - Refers to flowers that can be divided into equal halves along any axis (radially symmetric).
Stamens - The male parts of the flower, carrying the pollen. usually in the center of the blossom and surrounding the pistil, if present. Filaments and anthers collectively.
Culm - The hollow stem of grasses and bamboos.
Simple - Not divided into parts, e.g., a leaf with the blade in one piece.
Spur - A tubular or saclike extension of a sepal or petal, usually containing nectar.