Plant Characteristics

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Baccate :	Juicy and very succulent.
Parent Term:	Indehiscent
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Bacterial nodule :	-
Parent Term:	Leaf_blade_glands_etc
Plural:	Bacterial nodules

Barbed :	With short, rigid reflexed bristles or processes.
Parent Term:	Hairs
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Barbellate :	Minutely barbed.
Parent Term:	Hairs
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Bark :	Outer covering of woody plants that includes all living and dead tissues external to the cambium; i.e. a partially dead covering of
Parent Term:	Woody_stem
Child Terms:	Contoured Cork Flint_bark Dilatation_tissue Fissured Ripple_mark Suberous Slash Bark_texture Exfoliating Bark,_outer
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Bark Exudate :	-
Parent Term:	Slash
Plural:	Bark exudates
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Bark Texture :	-
Parent Term:	Bark
Plural:	Bark Textures
Child Terms:	Fibrous Granular Granule Spongy Grit
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Bark, outer :	-
Parent Term:	Bark
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Basal :	Arising at base; e.g. basal nerve is a nerve arising at (or very close to) the base of lamina
Parent Term:	Position
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Bearded :	With long hairs in a tuft, or fringe. When the hairs are in a conspicuous single file or narrow line, then ciliate is used.
Parent Term:	Hairs
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Berry :	Fleshy fruit with (1-) several seeds immersed in soft flesh, but seeds without a stony outer layer, e.g. tomato (see Drupe).
Parent Term:	Indehiscent
Plural:	Berries
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Bicrenate :	With smaller rounded teeth on larger rounded teeth.
Parent Term:	Serrated
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Bidentate :	(Petal or stipule) With two tooth like lobes
Parent Term:	Serrated
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Biennial :	Plant that completes its life cycle in two years, often flowering and fruiting in the second year.
Parent Term:	Habit

Bilocular :	An ovary, or fruit, having two locules (or cavities).
Parent Term:	Ovary
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Bipartite :	Divided nearly to the base into two parts.
Parent Term:	General_part_terms
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Bipinnate :	Leaves with two orders of branching, the first branches being pinnate, usually with small leaflets
Parent Term:	Bi-tripinnate
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Bipinnate , tripinnate or mixed order :	-
Parent Term:	Compound_leaf_types
Child Terms:	Bipinnate Biternate Tripinnate Tripinnnate
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Bipinnate, tripinnate or mixed order :	-
Parent Term:	Compound_leaf_types

Biserrate :	With sharply cut teeth on the margins of larger sharply cut teeth.
Parent Term:	Serrated
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Bisexual :	Flowers with both male (stamens) and female (carpels) parts.
Parent Term:	Gender
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Biternate :	Twice ternate, the three pinnae each divided into three pinnules.
Parent Term:	Bi-tripinnate
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Bitter :	-
Parent Term:	Taste

Blade :	The flat, usually green and photosynthetic part of a leaf (= lamina).
Parent Term:	Leaf_parts
Synonyms:	Lamina
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Bole :	Part of tree between the lowest boughs of the crown and the highest part of the buttress.
Parent Term:	Tree_(any_size)
Plural:	Boles
Child Terms:	Buttress Fluted Sinewy Stilt_roots Coppice Hoop Knee_roots Pneumatophore Prop_root Rhizome Stolon Stoloniferous Taproot Aerial_roots
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Bough :	Main massive branches of a crown of a large tree.
Parent Term:	Tree_(any_size)
Plural:	Boughs
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Bract :	(Usually a small) leaf-like or stipule-like structure at nodes of inflorescence (see bracteole).
Parent Term:	Inflorescence_part
Plural:	Bracts
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Bracteole :	Small type of bract on an inflorescence, but smaller than any normal bracts on the same inflorescence and nearer to the individual
Parent Term:	Inflorescence_part
Plural:	Bracteoles
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Branching pattern :	-
Parent Term:	Foliage
Child Terms:	Dichotomous Sympodial Halle_&_oldeman Monopodial

Branchlet :	A small branch or stem; if thin and (becoming) woody, then = twig.
Parent Term:	Stem
Plural:	Branchlets
Child Terms:	Circinate Zigzag

Bristly :	Covered with stiff, strong hairs.
Parent Term:	Hairs
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Brochidodromous :	With a single primary vein, the secondary veins not terminating at the margin but joined together in a series of prominent upward arches or marginal loops on each side of the primary vein.
Parent Term:	Leaf_venation_(hickey)
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Brown exudate (in slash) :	-
Parent Term:	Slash_exudate
Synonyms:	Brown exudate
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Bud :	An immature shoot sometimes covered with tough scales or stipules, or an undeveloped flower, often protected by the calyx or bracts
Parent Term:	Vegetative
Child Terms:	Bud-scales Apical_bud
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Bud-Scales :	Tough scales generally 0.5mm to a few cm long, enclosing a bud before it expands. Bud scales may be specialised stipules, undevelop
Parent Term:	Bud
Plural:	Bud Scales
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Bulb :	A swollen, usually underground organ involving a compacted stem and enveloped in succulent or scale-like leaves or leaf bases which
Parent Term:	Underground_bulbs_etc
Plural:	Bulbs
Child Terms:	Bulbil
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Bulb-like :	-
Parent Term:	Underground_bulbs_etc
Child Terms:	Tuber
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Bulbil :	A small bulb or bulb-like structure arising above ground, from leaf axils, in effect an axillary bud that falls off and assists in
Parent Term:	Bulb
Plural:	Bulbils
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Bulbs Etc :	-
Parent Term:	Vegetative

Bullate :	Surface (of leaf) raised in a series of domes between the veins on the upper surface and therefore also with marked depressions aro
Parent Term:	Vein_prominence

Buttress :	Outgrowths from base of tree extending from lateral surface roots to trunk.
Parent Term:	Bole
Plural:	Buttresses
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