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Foliaceous
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Leaflike; often used to describe cotyledons. |
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Foliolate
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With leaflets; e.g., 3-foliolate or trifoliolate is a leaf with three leaflets. |
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Foliolo
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Cada uno de los segmentos laminares que forman parte de una hoja compuesta |
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Follicetum
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An aggregate of follicles formed from an apocarpous gynoecium. |
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Follicle
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A dry or somewhat fleshy or leathery, dehiscent fruit formed from a single carpel and opening along a ventral suture; e.g., the fruit of Apocynaceae subfamily Asclepiadoideae. |
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Forb
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Any non-woody flowering plant that is not a grass, sedge, or rush |
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Forb
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A herbaceous flowering plant that is not graminoid (grasses, sedges and rushes). |
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Forked
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Same as furcate. |
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Form (forma, plural = formae)
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In lower case, a taxonomic rank just below variety. The abbreviation is f.. |
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Forma de nutrición
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Es el modo cómo una planta obtiene su alimento, por ejemplo: fotosintética, parásita, hemiparásita, etc... |
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Formicarium (plural = formicaria)
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An ant domatium which is usually a swollen chamber associated with the petioles (e.g., species of Hirtella and Tococoa) or a hollow stem (e.g., Tachigali and Cecropia). |
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Fornicate
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Arched. Same as recurved. |
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Foveolate
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Pitted. |
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Fractiflex
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Zigzagged; referring to a structure that is bent alternately in opposite directions much more sharply than is implied by the term flexuous. |
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Free
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Same as distinct. |
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Free nervation
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Leaf veins that do not unite to form a network. Compare with anastomosing and reticulate. |
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French spikes (= griffes or grimpettes in French)
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Two iron spikes in the form of a half circle with three spikes at the apex and three spikes opposite a small platform that the collector stands on. These spikes are made by Lacoste et fils (12 av. Pasteur, 24160 Excideuil, France) and can be purchased through their web site at www.lacoste-outillage.com. For more information about plant collecting see Tropical Plant Collecting: From the Filed to the Internet. This book can be purchased at: http://tecceditora.com/ or Amazon.com. |
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Friable
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Brittle; e.g., the bark of Chrysobalanaceae, which breaks into many small pieces when cut with a machete. |
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Frond
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Rerring to the leaves of ferns and the most conspicuous part of the sporophyte generation of this group of plants.. |
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Frondose
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Leafy; used to describe inflorescences bearing numerous, leaflike bracts, a condition especially common in the Rubiaceae. |
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Frugivore
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An animal that eats fruit. |
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Fruit
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In the flowering plants, the ripened ovary or the seed-bearing organ of a plant. |
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Fruit oxidizes bluish-green
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When the fruit is bruised, the color at the point of the bruise turns bluish-green. |
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Fruit white lenticellate
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A pericarp with the outer surface with scattered white dots. |
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Fruto agregado
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Un fruto formado por la coalescencia de los carpelos de un gineceo apocárpico de una sola flor; por ejemplo: La mora, frutilla. |
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