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Lenticel	A spongy area in the bark of roots, trunks, and stems and the pericarp of fruits that allows the interchange of gases. Lenticels are the equivalent of stomates in leaves.
Lenticel (adj. = lenticellate)	A spongy area in the bark of roots, trunks, and stems that allows the interchange of gases with the environment.
Lenticellate	Possessing lenticels.
Lenticellate	Possessing lenticels.
Lenticular	Lens-shaped.
Lepanthiform	Referring to tubular sheaths of leaves in the Orchidaceae that are flared and usually ciliate at the apex.
Lepidoptera	The order of insects including the butterflies and moths, as adults these insects are often pollinations of flowering plants and as junveniles they are often predators of plants.
Lepidopylls	Scalelike leaves found at the apical meristems of stems and rhizomes of Gunneraceae.
Lepidote	Covered with small, peltate scales.
Leprose	See scurfy.
Leptocaul	A type of growth form in which the tree is branched many times and the stems and leaves are not unusually large.
Leptocaul (leptocaulous)	A type of growth form in which the tree is branched many times and the stems and leaves are not unusually large. Most trees on the Osa have this type of growth form.
Leptocaule	Forma de crecimiento en la que el árbol tiene muchas ramificaciones y los tallos y hojas usualmente no son muy grandes. La mayoría de los árboles de Osa tienen esta forma de crecimiento
Liana	Planta trepadora leñosa. Comparar con trepadora herbácea
Liana	A woody climbing plant. Same as woody climber; compare with vine.
Libre	Se refiere a las partes de un mismo órgano que no están fusionadas entre sí; por ejemplo, cuando los pétalos están separados se dice que son libres
Lignified	Transformed into wood.
Lignin (ligneous)	A complex component of wood and of all vascular plant cells (woody).
Lígula	Órgano loriforme; por ejemplo, la lámina de la corola de una flor radial de algunas Asteraceae; la estructura interna en la vaina de las hojas de Cyperaceae, Poaceae y Zingiberaceae; la estructura que se encuentra en los pétalos de algunas Bromeliaceae; la estructura que se encuentra en la corona de algunas Apocynaceae; o la estructura del androceo de las flores zigomorfas de Lecythidaceae
Lígula enrollada	Se refiere a la lígula de las Lecythidaceae que está enrollada una hasta varias veces hacia la parte interior. En especies con lígulas enrolladas, la parte enrollada que porta los estambres rudimentarios se denomina la capucha del androceo. Especies de Eschweilera y Couratari son las únicas que poseen lígulas enrolladas y nectarios hipotéticamente derivados de los estambres vestigiales
Lígula no enrollada	Se refiere a la lígula de las Lecythidaceae que no está enrollada hacia el interior. En la Península de Osa, este tipo de lígula solamente se conoce en Lecythis mesophylla. Esta especie presenta estambres rudimentarios dirigidos hacia el interior, pero su lígula no se encuentra enrollada hacia el interior, como sucede en las especies de Eschweilera y Couratari. En L. mesophylla, la capucha es la parte de la lígula que porta los estambres rudimentarios.
Ligular sulcus	A groove or furrow close to the point where the androecial hood begins, i.e., between the appendix-free ligule and the androecial hood.
Ligulate	Furnished with a ligule.
Ligulate capitulum (head)	Inflorescence of Asteraceae with only ligulate flowers.
Ligulate flower	A zygomorphic flower with a straplike corolla found in the Asteraceae tribe Lactuceae. Differring from a ray flower by having five instead of three lobes.
Ligule	A prolongation of the staminal ring from the abaxial side of a flower (Tsou & Mori, 2007) in zygomorphic-flowered species of Lecythidaceae.
Ligule	Ligules are strap-like structures that can arise from different structures; for example, the ligule of a species of Bromeliaceae arises from petals; whereas that of a grass arises at the juncture of the blade sheath and the leaf blade and the ligule of a flower of Lecythidaceae arises from fusion of stamens.
Ligule arched	The ligule departs from the staminal ring and is curved for its entire length or, in other words the ligule curves downward from the middle to both its attachment to the staminal ring and to its distal end.
Ligule coiled	Referring to a ligule of Lecythidaceae that coils inward one or more times. In species with coiled ligules, the coiled part with the vestigial stamens is called the androecial hood. Species of Eschweilera and Couratari are the only species that have coiled ligules and they are the only species that have nectaries hypothesized to be derived from vestigial stamens.
Ligule flat	A ligule that arches at its departure from the staminal ring and then levels off, in other words the part that is flat is the part that covers the summit of the ovary which also equals the androecial hood.
Ligule not coiled	Referring to a ligule of Lecythidaceae that does not make a full coil inward. On the Osa Peninsula only Lecythis mesophylla is known to have this type of ligule. It does, however, have vestigial stamens that are swept inward but they do not form a complete coils as found in species of Eschweilera and Couratari. In L. mesophylla, the hood is the part of the ligule that possesses vestigial stamens.
Ligule undulate	A liguler that is similar to flat but is undulate along its length. The most important feature of this ligule shape is that the ligule is not undulate for its entire length.
Ligule: Couroupita nicaraguarensis-Type	The androecium is prolonged from one side of the staminal ring into a ligule that is covered with stamens and staminodes without interruption from the staminal ring to the apex of the ligule, i.e., there is no appendage free ligule and there is no well-differentiated hood. There is, however, a progressive increase in staminodes from the staminal ring to the end of the ligule such that all appendages in the staminal ring are stamens and most appendages at the end of the ligule are staminodes. There are no antherless appendages on the ligule.
Liliopsida	The scientific name of the class of vascular plants, also known as the monocotyledons, that produce embryos and seedlings with a single cotyledon,.
Limb	See blade.
Limen	In some Passifloraceae, a ring or a cup-shaped membrane more or less closely surrounding the base of the gynophore.
Line of opercular dehiscence	A circular sulcus around the summit of the ovary which indicates the place where the operculum will fall from the base of the fruit.
Linear	Con forma de línea. Se refiere a la forma de una lámina de una hoja, sépalo o pétalo cuando es muy alargada, angosta y cuya relación longitud/ancho es 10:1 o más
Linear	Referring to a two dimensional shape in which the greatest width extends throughout a middle zone at least one-third the length of the blade (in this zone the margins are more-or-less parallel) and the length to width ratio is 10:1 or more.
Linguliform, ligulate	Tongue-shaped.
Linnaeus	A Swedish botanist, zoologist, and physician who is credited with the system of binomial nomenclature. In 1753, he published Systema Plantarum, a way of naming plants considered to be the starting point of botanical nomenclature.
Lip	The median petal of Orchidaceae which is usually highly modified and different from the two lateral petals, the lip of orchids often plays a crucial role in the plant's pollination; one of the two divisions of a bilabiate corolla, e.g., in the Lamiaceae.
Liso	Se refiere a una superficie plana, sin estructuras irregulares (tubérculos, costas, alas o sulcos)
Lithophyte	A plant growing on rocks.
Litófita	Se refiere a plantas que crecen sobre rocas. Igual a epilítica
Litter Score	0-5 scale of % organic litter present compared to an "ideal" state, and the % of that litter that is from non-native species
Liverwort life cycle	Referring to the alternation of generations between the gameophyte (haploid) and sporophyte (diploid) stages of a liverwort. The most conspicuous stage of the life cycle is the gametophyte generation whereas the sportophyte generation is small and inconspicuous.
Llanos	A Spanish term referring to large expanses of plains found mostly in Colombia and Venezuela.
lobe (lobed, lobate)	A rounded projection arising from the margin or base of two dimensional structures such as leaves and bracts.
Lobulate	Lobed.
Lóbulo corolino	Es cada uno de los segmentos más o menos libres que están en la porción terminal de una corola gamopétala (o simpétala)
Lóbulo de la corola	Son los segmentos superiores, libres, de una corola simpétala.
Lóbulo del cáliz	Similar a sépalo, término utilizado para la parte superior libre de los sépalos, cuyas bases se encuentran fusionadas. Se aplica con menor frecuencia para describir especies de algunas familias que tienen ovarios inferiores, cuya parte inferior del cáliz hipotéticamente se encuentra fusionada con el ovario hacia la base, pero con los lóbulos libres dispuestos en el ápice del ovario.
Locellus (plural = locelli)	A small, secondary compartment.
Locular (loculate)	Divided into locules, such as an ovary or an anther.
Locule	A chamber or cavity, such as that of an ovary or fruit that contains the ovule(s) or seed(s).
Locule	A chamber, such as that of an ovary or fruit, that contains the ovule(s) or seed(s), respectively.
Locule orientation	Locule orientation with the longest axis of a locule to the central axis of an ovary as seen in a medial longitudinal section.
Locule orientation horizontal	A locule oriented with the greatest length more-or-less at right angles to the long axis of the ovary, i.e., at a right to the upper/lower septum as seen in longitudinal section.
Locule orientation oblique	A locule with the greatest length more-or-less paralleling the long axis of the ovary, i.e., parallel to the upper/lower septum as seen in longituindal section.
Locule orientation vertical	A locule with the greatest length more-or-less paralleling the long axis of the ovary, i.e., parallel to the upper/lower septum as seen in longituindal section.
Locule width at apex	The position at which the locule's greatest width is near the apex of the locule as viewed in a medial longitudinal section.
Locule width at middle	The position at which the locule's greatest width is in the middle of the locule as viewed in a medial longitudinal section.
Locule width throughout	The position at which the locule's greatest width is equal through much of the locule as viewed in a medial longitudinal section.
Locule with intermediate	The position at which the locule's greatest width is between the middle and the apex.
Loculicidal capsule	A dry, dehiscent fruit that opens in the middle of the locule. Compare with septicidal capsule.
Lóculo	Es una cámara o cavidad que se encuentra dentro del ovario o fruto, contiene el(los) óvulo(s) o semilla(s)
Lodicule	A small, colorless scale appressed to the ovary of most Poaceae that may represent a vestige of the perianth.
Loggy-ness Score	0-5 scale accounting for abundance of logs at the site
Loma	A Spanish term referring to the dry vegetation found along the coast of Peru.
Loment	A type of legume fruit in which each single-seeded segment breaks away from adjacent segments; e.g., in Desmodium (Fabaceae).
Lomentiform	Like a loment.
Longitudinal anther dehiscence	Same as lateral anther dehiscence.
Longitudinal section	A cut along the long axis of an organ but not necessarily through the middle of the organ. Compare with medial section.
Longitudinal section	A cut along the long axis of an organ but not necessarily through the middle of the organ. Compare with medial section.

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