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Contrast opposite. 2. (prep.) Occurring between something else, e.g. stamen s alternating with petal s. alternipetalous A configuration where parts of the flower, e.g. stamen s, alternate in position with the petal s. [18] ament A synonym of catkin. amphitropous (of an ovule) Bent so that both ends are near each other.
The stem can also be called the culm, halm, haulm, stalk, or thyrsus. The stem is normally divided into nodes and internodes: [2] The nodes are the points of attachment for leaves and can hold one or more leaves. There are sometimes axillary buds between the stem and leaf which can grow into branches (with leaves, conifer cones, or flowers). [2]
Compound Umbel – an umbel where each stalk of the main umbel produces another smaller umbel of flowers. Corymb – a grouping of flowers where all the flowers are at the same level, the flower stalks of different lengths forming a flat-topped flower cluster. Cyme – is a cluster of flowers where the end of each growing point produces a flower.
A raceme (/ r eɪ ˈ s iː m, r ə-/) or racemoid is an unbranched, indeterminate type of inflorescence bearing flowers having short floral stalks along the shoots that bear the flowers. The oldest flowers grow close to the base and new flowers are produced as the shoot grows in height, with no predetermined growth limit.
Stamen is the Latin word meaning "thread" (originally thread of the warp, in weaving). [8]Filament derives from classical Latin filum, meaning "thread" [8]; Anther derives from French anthère, [9] from classical Latin anthera, meaning "medicine extracted from the flower" [10] [11] in turn from Ancient Greek ἀνθηρά (anthērá), [9] [11] feminine of ἀνθηρός (anthērós) meaning ...
(In some older botanical writing, the term "stipule" was used more generally to refer to any small leaves or leaf-parts, notably prophylls.) [1] The word stipule was coined by Linnaeus [2] from Latin stipula, straw, stalk.
The word scape (Latin scapus, from Greek σκᾶπος), as used in botany, is fairly vague and arbitrary; various sources provide divergent definitions.Some older usages simply amount to a stem or stalk in general, [3] but modern formal usage tends to favour the likes of "A long flower stalk rising directly from the root or rhizome", [3] or "a long, naked, or nearly naked, peduncle, rising ...
Petiole (botany), a leaf stalk; Peduncle (botany), a stalk of an inflorescence or a solitary flower; Pedicel (botany), a stalk of a flower in an inflorescence; Plant stem, one of two main structural axes of a vascular plant; Pituitary stalk, a part of the brain