Glossary Checklist - The William & Lynda Steere Herbarium

Glossary Checklist - The William & Lynda Steere Herbarium

Androecial appendages

Androecial hood

Androecial hood appendages swept inward

Androecial hood double-coiled

Androecial hood flat

Androecial hood flat, thick

Androecial hood flat, thin

Androecial hood horizontally oriented (= hood horizontally oriented)

Androecial hood obliquely oriented (= hood obliquely orientated)

Androecial hood once-coiled

Androecial hood split

Androecial hood triple-coiled

Androecial hood: Bertholletia-type

Androecial hood: Corythophora alta-type

Androecial hood: Couratari-type

Androecial hood: Couroupita guianensis-type

Androecial hood: Couroupita subsessilis-type

Androecial hood: Eschweilera-type

Androecial hood: Lecythis corrugata-type

Androecial hood: Lecythis idatimon-type

Androecial hood: Lecythis ollaria-type

Androecial hood: Lecythis persistens subsp. persistens-type

Androecial hood: Lecythis pisonis-type

Androecium (pl. = androecia)

Androecium actinomorphic

Androecium zygomorphic

Anisocytic stomata

Anomocytic stomata

Anterior end of flower

Anterior hood extension

Anther connective

Anther dehiscence lateral

Anther dehiscence poricidal

Anther theca (pl. = thecae)

Anthers basifixed

Anthers versatile

Appendage-free ligule

Arched tertiary veins

Areole (areolate)

Aril basal-lateral

Aril half I-beam

Axillary inflorescence

Bark not fissured

Brachyparacytic stomata

Bracteole (adj. = bracteolate)

Bracteoles above articulation

Bracteoles below articulation

Branched inflorescence

Calyx-lobes imbricate

Calyx-lobes not imbricate

Cauline inflorescence

Centrifugal stamen initiation

Centripetal stamen initiation

Circumscissile capsule

Columella (pl. = columellae)

Concolor (adj. = concolorous)

Cortical bundle

Cotyledons absent (= embryo macropodial)

Cotyledons bowed

Cotyledons cryptocotylar

Cotyledons epigeal

Cotyledons fleshy, irregular (= cotyledons plano-convex)

Cotyledons foliaceous (= cotyledons leaf-like)

Cotyledons hypogeal

Cotyledons leaf-like (= cotyledons foliaceous)

Cotyledons phanerocotylar

Cotyledons plano-convex (= cotyledons fleshy, irregular)

Crassinucellate ovules

Curved appendages

Cuticular ridge

Cylindrical fruit

Dehiscent fruit

Differentiated pollen

Discolor (adj. = dicolorous)

Discolor (adj. = discolorous)

Domatium (pl. domatia)

Embryo air chamber

Embryo macropodial (= cotyledons absent)

Endocarp buttress

Epidermal cells

Excurrent secondary vein

Fascicle (Fasciculate)

Festoon (adj. festooned)

Filaments angular

Filaments arched

Filaments clavate

Filaments curved

Filaments golf club-shaped.

Filaments reflexed

Filaments sigmoid-shaped

Filaments straight

Filaments tapered

Filaments terete

Filaments unidimensional

Flower bisexual

Flower oxidizes bluish-green

Flowering associated with leaf flush

Flowering not associated with leaf flush

Fruit oxidizes bluish-green

Fruit white lenticellate

Functionally indehiscent fruit

Gynoecium (Pl. = gynoecia)

Heteranthery (adj. = heterantherous)

Higher order leaf venation

Homoecy (adj. = homoecious)

Indehiscent fruit

Infra adjacent secondary vein

Infracalycine zone

Infracalycine zone rounded

Infracalycine zone tapered

Infracalycine zone truncate

Infrafoliar inflorescence

Inner integument extruded

Intersecondary vein

Isocotylar cotyledons

Leaf venation brochidodromous

Leaf venation camptodromous

Leaf venation eucamptodromous

Ligule undulate

Ligule: Couroupita nicaraguarensis-Type

Line of opercular dehiscence

Locule orientation

Locule orientation horizontal

Locule orientation oblique

Locule orientation vertical

Locule width at apex

Locule width at middle

Locule width throughout

Locule with intermediate

Longitudinal section

Lower/upper septum

Lower/upper septum articulation

Medial longitudinal section

Midrib plane adaxially

Midrib square abaxially

Mucilage ducts (= mucilaginous ducts)

Nectary (pl. = nectaries)

Non-cylindrical fruit

Obliquely zygomorphic

Opercular opening

Operculum (plural = opercula)

Outer bark laminated

Outer bark thick

Outer bark thin

Ovary cross-section

Ovary half-inferior

Ovary summit obconical

Ovary summit plateau-like

Ovary summit truncate

Ovary summit umbonate

Ovule horientation oblique

Ovule insertion

Ovule orientation

Ovule orientation horizontal

Ovule orientation oblique

Ovule orientation pendulous

Ovule unitegmic

Ovules anatropous

Ovules horizontally oriented

Ovules obliquely oriented downward

Ovules obliquely oriented upward

Ovules pendulous

Ovules tenuinucellate

Papilla (plural = papillae; adj. = papillate)

Paracytic stomata

Pedicel/hypanthium

Pedicel/hypanthium tapered to articulation

Pedicel/hypanthium truncate at articulation

Percurrent tertiary venation

Petal apex reflexed

Petiole cross-section

Placenta (pl. = placentae)

Placenta arched

Placenta columnar

Placenta flabellate

Placenta incipient

Placenta laminar

Placenta oblique

Placentation bilamellar

Plant holders for photography

Pollen syntricolpate

Posterior end of flower

Posterior hood extension

Prominent (diminuitive = prominulous)

Pustule (adj. pustulate)

Quaternary vein

Radial thickenings

Radially symmetrical

Ramiflorous inflorescence

Reticulate tertiary venation

Ring nectary (= nectary ring-like)

Rugose hypanthium

Secondarily indehiscent fruit

Secondary pollen presentation

Secondary vein decurrent

Seed coat (= testa)

Seed germination lateral

Seed germination terminal

Seed wing circumferential

Seed wing unilateral

Septal arms present

Septal arms vestigial

Septal unit anchor-shaped

Septal unit arrowhead-shaped

Septal unit double bit axe-shaped

Septal unit head

Septal unit head extension

Septal unit spear-shaped

Septal unit stalk

Septum (pl. = septa)

Smooth hypanthium

Squama (pl. = squamae, diminutive = squamella, adj. = squamate)

Stalked vestigial stamens

Staminal rim oblique

Staminal ring lip

Staminal ring prolongation

Staminal tube extension

Staminal tube lower chamber

Staminal tube rim

Staminal tube upper chamber

Staminal tube zygomorphic

Staminodes geniculate.

Stigma convoluted

Stigma punctiform

Stigma surface lepidote

Stigma surface pubescent

Stomate (plural = stomates) (= stoma and stomata)

Style geniculate

Subsidiary cells

Sulcate hypanthium

Supra adjacent secondary vein

Supracalycine zone

Supracalycine zone erect

Supracalycine zone tapered

Suprafoliar inflorescence

Terminal inflorescence

Transverse section

Truncate fruit base

Trunk buttressed

Trunk cylindrical

Tuberculate hypanthium

Unbranched inflorescence

Understory tree

Undulation (adj. = undulate)

Vestigial stamen nectaries

Vestigial stamens

Vestigial stamens external

Vestigial stamens internal