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=Dehiscent.= Breaking open at maturity to discharge the contents.
=Deltoid.= Broadly triangular.
=Dioecious.= Bearing staminate and pistillate flowers upon separate
plants.
=Dissected.= Finely divided into numerous small or narrow segments.
=Divided.= With deep segments or lobes.
=Elliptical.= Having the shape of an ellipse.
=Elliptical-lanceolate.= Intermediate in shape between elliptical and
lanceolate.
=Entire.= With an unbroken margin, without teeth or lobes.
=Epiphyte.= A plant growing attached to the bark of another plant, and
without connection with the soil.
=Erect.= Growing in nearly or quite a vertical position.
=Evenly pinnate.= A compound leaf terminating in a pair of leaflets.
=Filament.= The (usually) slender basal portion of a stamen, supporting
the anther at its tip.
=Floweret.= A small flower.
=Gamopetalous.= Composed of united petals.
=Gamosepalous.= Composed of united sepals.
=Glabrous.= Smooth; without hairs.
=Glandular.= Bearing glands.
=Glaucous.= Covered with a thin bluish or whitish deposit, easily rubbed
off.
=Glume.= A bract at the base of a spikelet of a grass.
=Half recurved.= Curved half-way backward.
=Hastate.= Shaped like an arrow-head, but with the basal lobes pointing
outwards instead of backward.
=Head.= A dense cluster of flowers, about as broad as long.
=Hirsute.= With stiff coarse hairs.
=Imperfect.= Flowers which contain either pistil or stamens, not both.
=Incised.= With deep, sharp, irregular, divisions.
=Indehiscent.= Not breaking open at maturity to discharge the contents.
=Inflorescence.= A cluster of flowers.
=Internode.= A section of stem between two joints, or nodes.
=Involucre.= A collection of bracts at the base of a flower-cluster.
=Irregular.= Possessing similar parts of different size or form. An
irregular flower is generally distinguished by petals of unequal
size or shape.
=Laciniate.= Cut into narrow pointed lobes or divisions.
=Lanceolate.= Shaped like a lance-head, several times longer than wide,
and broadest below the middle.
=Linear.= Long and narrow, but with about uniform width.
=Linear-lanceolate.= Intermediate in shape between linear and lanceolate;
narrowly lanceolate.
=Lip.= The largest and most conspicuous petal in an irregular corolla,
usually applied to the lower petal of an orchid.
=Lobe.= A segment or division of an
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