Plant Characteristics

A list of specialist words which might be used in field guides ... more.

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Echinate :	Covered with spines.
Parent Term:	Surface_texture
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Ecology :	-
Parent Term:	Species_level_terms
Child Terms:	Habitat Guilds Population_terms
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Elaiosome :	An minute oil-rich object on seeds or leaves serving as food for ants
Parent Term:	Glands_(large_types)
Plural:	Elaiosomes
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Elfin forest :	-
Parent Term:	Vegetation
Plural:	Elfin forests

Ellipsoid :	A solid object roughly with an elliptic outline from the side view and circular outline from the end view (like some grapes).
Parent Term:	Shapes__3d
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Elliptic :	Broadest around middle with smoothly curving edges: strictly, 1.2-3 times as long as wide. Ones with broader ratios than this are ?
Parent Term:	Leaf_blade_shape
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Emarginate :	Tip of leaf with a slight notch, but otherwise usually rather obtuse.
Parent Term:	Apex_of_leaf_blade
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Endocarp :	Inner layer of wall of fruit (pericarp); in a drupe, the stony layer.
Parent Term:	Fruit_details
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Endosperm :	The nutritive tissue surrounding the embryo of some types of seed.
Parent Term:	Seed
Child Terms:	Ruminate_endosperm
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Entire :	(Margin) smooth; evenly curved or straight, without teeth or undulations.
Parent Term:	Leaf_blade_margin
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Epicalyx :	A whorl of bracts just below a flower, calyx-like but outside and additional to the calyx.
Parent Term:	Perianth
Plural:	Epicalyces
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Epidermal :	Associated with the epidermis.
Parent Term:	Surface_details
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Epidermis :	The outermost layerof cells (?skin?) of an organ, usually one cell thick.
Parent Term:	Surface_details
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Epigynous :	Of a flower, when the sepals, petals and stamens apparently all arise above the ovary.
Parent Term:	Flower_part_arrangement

Epiphyte :	-
Parent Term:	Root_climbers_/creepers
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Erect :	Upright, directed perpendicular to the surface.
Parent Term:	Habit
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Erose :	Irregularly, shallowly toothed and/or lobed margins; appearing gnawed.
Parent Term:	Serrated
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Eucamptodromous :	With a single primary vein, the secondary veins curved upward and gradually diminishing distally within the margin and interconnected by a series of cross-veins without forming conspicuous marginal loops.
Parent Term:	Leaf_venation_(hickey)
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Evergreen :	Plant which always bears foliage; i.e. never deciduous. Leaves fall off individually, not all in one season.
Parent Term:	Tree_crown
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Exfoliating :	Of bark, being shed in thin, often papery scales or sheets.
Parent Term:	Bark

Exocarp :	The outermost layer of the fruit wall, usually a skin-like layer.
Parent Term:	Fruit_details
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Exserted stamen :	Protruding stamens, longer than corolla tube
Parent Term:	Stamen
Plural:	Exserted stamens
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Exstipulate :	Without stipules.
Parent Term:	Node
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Extrafloral :	Of nectaries, which are situated outside the flowers, e.g. on the leaves or stipules.
Parent Term:	Glands_(large_types)
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Exudate :	Any liquid or gelatinous or resinous substance flowing from a plant (e.g. from bark slash or glands).
Parent Term:	Plant_parts
Child Terms:	Laticiferous
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Exudate coloured watery :	-
Parent Term:	Slash_exudate
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Exudate thick translucent colourless :	-
Parent Term:	Slash_exudate
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