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Chaparral
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Una región moderadamente temperada con inviernos húmedos y frescos y veranos largos y secos, cuya vegetación está dominada por arbustos esclerófilos sempevirentes. |
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Character
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A morphological, anatomical, or molecular feature of an organism that helps distinguish a taxon from other taxa. |
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Character state
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The variation in a character of a plant, e.g., flower color is a character and if there are only blue and white flowers in a given species these two colors represent character states. |
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Chartaceous
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Having the texture of a thick paper. |
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Chartaceous
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With a thick paper texture |
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Chasmogamia
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Se refiere a aquellas flores que abren antes de la fertilización y usualmente son de polinización cruzada. |
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Chasmogamy (chasmogamous)
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Referring to flowers that open before fertilization and usually are cross-pollinated. |
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Chevron
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A V-shaped pattern most commonly associated with leaves. |
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Chimera
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An animal or a plant with genetically and morphologically different tissue on the same plant. The term is derived from Greek mythology and refers to a mythological animal composed of a lion, goat, and a serpent. Sometimes this term is also used to describe a plant derived from grafting, e.g., stems of Brazil nut trees grafted onto the root stock of another Brazil nut tree resulting in parts of the same tree with different genetic makeups. In Lecythidaceae, we use this term to describe the spontaneous occurence of anomalous flowers on a plant with normal flowers and assume that this difference is caused by a mutation. |
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Chiropterochory (chiropterochorous)
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Referring to diaspores that are carried away from the mother plant by bats. Most bat-dispersed seeds dispersed by bats have either berry-like fruits or fruits with the seeds provided with a fleshy associated structure such as an aril. A few other species have the fruits surrounded by a fleshy perianth (e.g., the diaspores of species of Cecropia). Same as bat-dispersed. |
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Chiropterophily
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Pollination by bats. There are two main types of bat pollinaton. In one type the bats are relatively small and capable of hovering in front of flowers, these bats occupy the same nich occupied by hummingbirds during the day and belong to the subfamily Glossophaginae. Most of the flowers pollinated by this group of bats have tubular or bell-shaped flowers but they do visit flowers of the other type as well. In the other type, the bats land on the flowers and consist of many flowers aggregated into heads (e.g., species of Parkia) or are brush-like (e.g., Pseudobombax munguba). |
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Chlorophyll
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The green pigment in plant cells that plays an essential role in photosynthesis; most plants have chlorophyll but some, such as saprophytes, lack chlorophyll. |
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Chorcho, corchosa, corchoso
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Ver peridermo. |
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Choripetalous corolla
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Haviing petals free from one another. Same as polypetalous; opposite of gamopetalous and sympetalous. |
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Cianobacteria
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Bacteria verde-azul parecida en muchos aspectos a las algas eucariotas. |
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Ciatiforme
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Con forma de una copa. |
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Ciatio
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Tipo de inflorescencia que consiste de varias flores estaminadas desnudas, las que usualmente están acompañadas por una flor pistilada desnuda, todas agrupadas, subtendidas y mayormente encerradas por un involucro con forma de una copa; es característica de Euphorbia (Euphorbiaceae). |
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Ciliada, ciliado (diminutivo ciliolada, ciliolado)
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Que poseee tricomas rectos en el margen, a manera de cilios o cortos pelos. |
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Ciliate (diminutive = ciliolate)
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Fringed on margin with straight trichomes finer than those of a fimbriate margin. |
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Cilindro de vainas abrazadoras
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Ver capitel. |
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Cima
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Una inflorescencia determinada en la que el crecimiento del eje central termina en una flor que abre primero y cuyas ramificaciones laterales terminan en una flor. Cuando este patrón se repite varias veces a menudo resulta en una inflorescencia de ápice plano |
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Cima dicasial
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Una inflorescencia determinada que posee un eje central desarrollado y termina en una flor que abre primero y subtiende a un par de ramas que rematan en una flor solitaria. |
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Cima escorpioide
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Una inflorescencia determinada cuyas ramas laterales se desarrollan hacia un solo lado de la inflorescencia. |
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Cima helicoide
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Una inflorescencia determinada, simpódica cuyas ramas laterales se desarrollan de manera alterna hacia a un y otro lado de la inflorescencia. |
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Cimbiforme
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Con la forma de un bote. |
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