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Gynodioecy (gynodioecious)
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Referring to a sexual condition of a species that bears pistillate flowers on some plants and bisexual flowers or staminate flowers as well as pistillate flowers on other plants. |
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Gynoecium (Pl. = gynoecia)
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The female part of the flower (i.e., the pistil). |
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Gynoecium (plural = gynoecia)
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The collective term for the pistillate structure (the pistils) of the flower. Compare with androecium. |
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Gynoecium apocarpous
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Referring to a gynoecium of distinct carpels; e.g., many species of Annonaceae, Crassulaceae, Menispermaceae, Ranunculaceae, Rosaceae, etc. Compare with syncarpous. |
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Gynoecium syncarpous
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A gynoecium composed of fused carpels. |
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Gynomonoecy (gynomonoecious)
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Referring to a sexual condition of a species that bears pistillate flowers and bisexual flowers on same plants. |
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Gynophore
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Stalk of the ovary; e.g., in Capparaceae and Simaroubaceae. Same as stipe. |
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Gynostegial corona
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A corona derived from the gynostegium. |
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Gynostegium
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The structure formed by the fusion of the stamens and the stigmatic region of the gynoecium in the Apocynaceae subfamily Asclepiadoideae. Compare with column in the Orchidaceae. |
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Gynostemium
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In the Aristolochiaceae, a structure formed by the fusion of the stamens to the style and stigma. |
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Habit
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The growth form of a plant; e.g., herb, tree, or shrub. |
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Habit
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The growth form of a plant; e.g., herb, tree, or shrub. Same as growth form. |
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Habitat
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El lugar donde crece una planta, por ejemplo: un humedal, un bosque muy húmedo, una savana, etc… |
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Habitat
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The place where a plant grows, for example in a wet area along a stream, in a pond, rain forest, savanna etc. |
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Habitat Hectares Approach
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Method for vegetation or habitat quality assessment for extant native vegetation. |
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Habitat Quality Score
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Habitat Quality Score, determined by the team at the Sampling Event site, as assessed by summing ten component scores as follows: Large Trees Score; Canopy Cover Score; Understory Score; Weediness Score; Recruitment Score; Litter Score; Loggy-ness; Patch Size; Neighborhood; Distance to Core. |
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Hair
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See trichome which is used more correctly for plants. |
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Halophyte (halophytic)
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A plant adapted to growing in saline soils. (referring to a plant growing in saline soils) |
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Hapaxanthy (hapaxanthic or hapaxanthous)
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Referring to plants that die after a single episode of flowering and fruiting; e.g., many bambusoid Poaceae, some palms, and and some Tachigali (Fabaceae). Same as monocarpic and semelparic and opposite of polycarpic, iteroparic, and pleionanthic. |
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Haploid
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Having one set of chromosomes. See diploid. |
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Haplostemonous
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Referring to an androecium with a single series of stamens in one whorl. |
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Hapter (plural = haptera)
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Disclike or irregularly formed lateral outgrowths of roots (rarely shoots) that affix plants of many Podostemaceae to the substrate. Same as holdfast. |
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Hard bast
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The inner non-functional part of the xylem, i.e., the dead part of the xylem that no longer transports water and nutrients to the leaves but serves as support for the plant. Same as heartwood. |
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Hastada
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Con forma de punta de una flecha, pero con los lóbulos basales divergentes, dispuestos en ángulos más o menos rectos en relación al eje |
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Hastate
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In the shape of an arrowhead but with the basal lobes spreading at more or less right angles to the long axis. |
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