Plant Characteristics

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

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Mangrove :	-
Parent Term:	Swamp_forest
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Marcescent :	Withering without falling off, as the sepals and petals in some flowers or the leaves at the base of some plants.
Parent Term:	Texture
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Margin of leaf blade (3D) :	-
Parent Term:	Leaf_blade_margin
Child Terms:	Revolute Undulate Involute Recurved Recurved_margin Margin_recurved
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MARGIN RECURVED :	-
Parent Term:	Margin_of_leaf_blade_(3d)

Marginal :	(Nerve, gland) situated on the margin (sub marginal = very close to and following margin); marginal placentation = having the ovule
Parent Term:	Position
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Membranous :	?Like a membrane?, i.e. thin, soft, flexible, and more or less translucent. Leaves thinner than papery.
Parent Term:	Texture
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Mericarp :	A one-seeded portion of a many-seeded fruit that breaks at maturity into units.
Parent Term:	Fruit_type
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Merous :	The number of parts per whorl that characterizes a particular flower, e.g., 5-merous, pentamerous, having five parts.
Parent Term:	General_part_terms
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Mesocarp :	The middle layer in a fruit wall, often fleshy and edible in a drupe, sometimes missing.
Parent Term:	Fruit_details
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Micro :	-
Parent Term:	Surface_details

Micro Surface Details :	-
Parent Term:	Surface_details

Microscopic Surface Details :	-
Parent Term:	Plant_parts

Midrib :	Central and largest channel or vein e.g. of leaf, stipule, petals, bract.
Parent Term:	Venation
Child Terms:	Midrib_upper_surface Midrib_lower_surface Upper_midrib
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Midrib lower surface :	-
Parent Term:	Midrib

Midrib upper surface :	-
Parent Term:	Midrib
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Monadelphous :	Of stamens, with the filaments united into one bundle.
Parent Term:	Androecium
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Monocarp :	One of several fruit parts derived from (the separate carpels of) a single flower in a few families where the carpels remain free.
Parent Term:	Gynoecium

Monochasium :	A cyme with one branch from each node.
Parent Term:	Inflorescence_type
Plural:	Monochasia
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Monocot habit (large or woody and palm like) :	-
Parent Term:	Habit
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Monocot small habit (musoid grasses lillies etc) :	-
Parent Term:	Habit
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Monocotyledon :	Broad category of flowering plant, with one seedling leaf e.g. palms and grasses mostly with many nerves running parallel.
Parent Term:	Habit
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Monoecious :	With separate male and female flowers, but both sexes on one plant (see dioecious).
Parent Term:	Gender
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Monopodial :	-
Parent Term:	Branching_pattern

Monotypic :	With only one taxon of the next lower rank, e.g. a family containing only one genus.
Parent Term:	Taxonomy
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Mosaic :	Pattern made up of many closely fitting pieces.
Parent Term:	Pattern
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Mucro :	-
Parent Term:	Apex_of_leaf_blade
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Mucronate :	Tip of leaf with a stiff narrow process (mucro) on end of midrib. According to some strict definitions the point is less than 3 tim
Parent Term:	Apex_of_leaf_blade
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Mucronulate :	1:1 l/w or broader than long; straight.
Parent Term:	Apex_of_leaf_blade
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Muricate :	Covered with short, hard protuberances.
Parent Term:	Surface_texture
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