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Flor bilateralmente simétrica
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Ver actinomorfa. |
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Flor bisexual
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Se aplica a la flor en la que ambos órganos sexuales, estambres y ovario(s), funcionan fisiológicamente. Lo mismo que perfecta. |
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Flor completa
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Se refiere a una flor que posee todos los verticilos o partes florales: Cáliz, corola, estambres y gineceo. Comparar con flor incompleta. |
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Flor imperfecta
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Ver flor unisexual. |
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Flor incompleta
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Se refiere a una flor que no posee todos los verticilos o partes florales: Cáliz, corola, estambres y gineceo. Comparar con flor completa. |
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Flor perfecta
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Ver flor bisexual. |
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Flor simétrica
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Ver actinomorfa, regular. |
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Flor solitaria
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Se aplica cuando la inflorescencia está constituida por una sola flor. |
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Flor unisexual
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Se aplica a la flor en la que sólo un órgano sexual es funcional, ya sean los estambres o el(los) ovario(s), pero no ambos. Lo mismo que imperfecta. |
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Flora
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A book in which all of the species of a given group of plants for a given geographic area are described and illustrated to some extent. In addition, dichotomous keys used for indentification are provided. |
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Floral aromas
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Aromas emitted by plants to attract pollinators. These aromas can be extracted from plants by enclosing the flowers in bags or glass globes and then pumping the air from around the flowers through a tube with adsorbents. The samples are passed though a Gas Chromatograph and the chemical composition of the aromas of different flowers are identified by comparing the samples with a database of known compounds (Knudsen & Mori, 1996). There is a correlation between different floral aromas and the pollinators that visit the flowers. |
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Floral cavity
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A minute cavity on the dorsal side of Wolfia and Wolfiella (Lemnaceae) in which flowers are produced; note that vegetative buds are not produced in this cavity. |
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Floral tube
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A tube formed by the fusion of sepals, petals, or both, or as an outgrowth of the hypanthium. Nectar often accumulates within the floral tube. |
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Floret
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In the Poaceae, the term includes the lemma and palea as well as the enclosed flower; sometimes used to refer to the flowers of Asteraceae. |
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Flower bisexual
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A flower with a functional androecium (the male part of the flower and all parts derived from it) and a functional gynoecium (the female part of the flower). |
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Flower oxidizes bluish-green
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When the flower is bruised, the color at the point of the bruise turns bluish-green. |
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Flowering associated with leaf flush
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A phenological strategy in which a tree drops its leaves, flowers when the canopy is leafless or partially leafless, and flushes new leaves after flowering or flowers at about the same time that new leaves are flushed; i.e., there is some association between flowering and leaf fall and flush. |
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Flowering not associated with leaf flush
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A phenological strategy in which there is no apparent relationship between leaf drop, leaf flush, and flowering. |
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Flowering plant
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A plant whose seeds are borne within a fruit derived from a carpel or carpels. |
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Flowering plant life cycle
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Referring to the alternation of generations between the gameophyte (haploid) and sporophyte (diploid) stages of a floweirng plant. The most conspicuous stage of the life cycle is the sporophyte generation whereas the gametophyte generation is small and inconspicuous. Flowering plants are heterosporous because they have two different kinds of spores, the pollen grain and the embryo sac which contains a egg. |
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Fluted
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Same as sulcate. |
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Flying buttress
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Buttress of a tree trunk that is elevated above the ground. Compare with plank buttress and running buttress. |
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Fodder pollen
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Pollen that does not germinate and serves as a pollinator reward. This has been demonstrated in Couroupita guianensis and Lecythis pisonis (Mori et al., 1980) and is hypothesized for other species that appear to have staminodes on the inside of a flat hood or in stamens on the ligular side of the staminal ring. |
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Fodder pollen
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Pollen that does not germinate and serves as a pollinator reward. This has been demonstrated in Couroupita guianensis and Lecythis pisonis (Mori et al., 1980) and is hypothesized for other species that appear to have staminodes on the inside of a flat hood or in stamens on the ligular side of the staminal ring. |
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Foliácea, foliáceo
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Con apariencia de una hoja. Término a menudo empleado para describir cotiledones. Similar a papirácea, papiráceo. |
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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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Fruto apocárpico
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Es un fruto compuesto que tiene los carpelos separados, independientes; procede de un gineceo apocárpico |
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Fruto campanulado
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Con forma de una campana. |
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Fruto cilíndrico
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Se refiere a un fruto que es mucho más largo que ancho. |
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Fruto falso
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Ver pseudofruto. |
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Fruto no cilíndrico
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Se refiere a un fruto en el que la medida de su ancho es de la misma longitud o es aún mayor que la medida de su alto |
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Fruto sincárpico
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Es un fruto compuesto que tiene los carpelos connados; procede de un gineceo sincárpico |
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Fugacious
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Falling off early. Same as caducous. |
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Fulvous
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Dull yellowish brown. |
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Functionally indehiscent fruit
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A circumscissile fruit that opens via an operculum (lid) but the seeds are trapped inside because the size of the opening is smaller than the size of the seeds. |
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Funicle
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The cord that attaches the ovule and subsequently the seed to the fruit wall. |
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Funicle (funiculus)
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The cord that attaches the ovule and subsequently the seed to the fruit wall. |
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Funículo
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Es la estructura filamentosa que conecta al óvulo con el ovario y subsecuentemente a la semilla con la pared del fruto |
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Funneliform
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Usually referring to a corolla in the shape of a funnel but can also be applied to other structures with a similar shape. |
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Furcate
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Forked, separating into two divisions. |
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Furfuraceous
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Scurfy or flaky. |
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Fused (fusion)
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Referring to similar structures fused to each other, such as the petals of a sympetalous corolla. Same as connate. Compare with adnate and connivent. |
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Fusiform
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A solid shape narrowed toward both ends from a swollen middle. |
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Fusionado
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Se refiere a las partes unidas de una flor, e.g., el tubo de la corolla está formado por la fusión de los pétalos en la parte baja de la corola |
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Galea (plural =galeae) (galeate)
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A helmet-or hood-shaped, as the upper lip of some bilabiate corollas (possessing galeae). |
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Gall fruits
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In Ficus (Moraceae), the seedless fruits that develop from ovaries parasitized by wasps. |
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Gamete
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A haploid (n) reproductive cell, two of which fuse to form a diploid (2n) zygote. |
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Gametophyte
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The gamete-producing haploid phase (n) of a plant's life cycle. |
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Gamopétala
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Igual a simpétala |
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Gamopetalous corolla
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Having petals united for at least part of their length. Same as sympetalous; Opposite of polypetalous and choripetalous. |
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Gamosépalo
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Se refiere al cáliz que posee los sépalos fusionados. Opuesto a dialisépalo |
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