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Apomorphic character | Referring to a feature of a plant that is derived from an ancestral character state, i.e., an evolutionary advanced character state that helps define taxonomic groups, e.g., the |
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Character | A morphological, anatomical, or molecular feature of an organism that helps distinguish a taxon from other taxa. | |
Character state | 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. |