| **** S **** Scabrid : rough to the touch. Scarious : thin, not green, stiff & dry. Sepals : leaf like, just below flower. Septate : divided into segments by walls. Septum : a partition. Serrate : toothed like a saw. See Fig S16. Serrulate : as above.. Setaceous : shaped like a bristle. Setose : bristly. Spathulate : paddle shaped. See Fig. S17. Spinous : spiny. Spinescent : spiny, tapering. Sporangium: structure containing asexual spores. Stigma : receptive surface of the gynoecium, to which pollen grains adhere. Stipules : a scale like leaf appendage, at base of petiole, adnate to it. Stoloniferous : creeping stems of short duration, produced by plants with central rosette or erect stem above ground, for perinnation. Striate : marked with long narrow depressions. Strigulose: having stiff appressed hairs. Stylopodium : enlarged base of styles. Sub acute : not acute. Sub cordate : not completely cordate. See Fig.012. Sub cylindrical : not entirely cylindrical. Sub entire : not quite entire. Sub globose : not quite round. Sub orbicular : less than rounded, length & breadth about same. See Fig. 011. Sub ovoid : not quite ovoid/egg shaped. Sub sessile : with a slight stalk. Sub tending : having a bud or developed from a bud, or a sporangium in the axil. Sub terete : ridged or grooved only slightly. Subulate : awl shaped, narrowed, pointed + > or < flattened. |
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