Plant Characteristics

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

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Habit :	The form of a whole plant, e.g. tree, liane.
Parent Term:	Vegetative
Child Terms:	Acaulescent Climber Annual Erect Herb Herbaceous Monocotyledon Perennial Procumbent Prostrate Saprophyte Scrambling_shrub Shrub Straggling Succulent_plant Suffrutex Twiner Tree_(any_size) Monocots_(smaller) Monocots_(large/woody) Biennial Litter-bin_habit Scrambler Suffrutescent Climbers_(all_types) Pachycaul Leptocaul
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Habitat :	The environment in which a plant lives.
Parent Term:	Ecology
Child Terms:	Swamp Riverine Swamp Vegetation Vegetation
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Hairs :	-
Parent Term:	Surface_texture
Child Terms:	Arachnoid Asperous Barbed Barbellate Bearded Canescent Domatia Downy Follicle Glandular_hair Scale Scurfy Stellate_hair Strigose Trichome Velutinous Villous Viscid Appressed Bristly Chaffy Ciliate Comose Dendroid Ferruginous Floccose Glabrous Glochidiate Hirsute Hirtellous Hispid Indumentum Lanate Lepidote Pilose Puberulent Pubescent Pustule Sericeous Setose Spiculate Squamose Stinging Tomentose Tuft Swollen_base_hairs Colleters Velvety Indumentum_(hairs_etc) Scales Scaly
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Halle and Oldeman Architectural models :	-
Parent Term:	Branching_pattern
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Hastate :	Of a leaf blade, narrow with two basal lobes directed outwards, like some types of arrow-head.
Parent Term:	Leaf_base
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Head :	A racemose inflorescence with unstalked flowers aggregated in a dense cluster.
Parent Term:	Inflorescence_type
Plural:	Heads
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Heliophilous :	'Sun loving'; typical of forest gaps, road-sides, savanna.
Parent Term:	Guilds
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Herb :	A generally small plant without woody stems, without bark.
Parent Term:	Habit
Child Terms:	Herb_(>1m) Herb_(small_/annual) Herb(monocot)
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Herb (larger types >1m) :	-
Parent Term:	Herb
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Herb (small annuals) :	-
Parent Term:	Herb
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Herb(monocot) :	-
Parent Term:	Herb
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Herbaceous :	Not woody; soft often green, stems (even on non-herbs) having the texture of a herb stem.
Parent Term:	Habit
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Hermaphrodite :	(Flower or plant) of both sexes, i.e. with both stamens and ovary, bisexual.
Parent Term:	Gender
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Hilum :	The scar on a seed indicating its point of attachment.
Parent Term:	Seed
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Hirsute :	With long, coarse, and fairly stiff hairs; hairs erect, completely covering surface.
Parent Term:	Hairs
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Hirtellous :	Minutely hirsute: with shorter hairs
Parent Term:	Hairs
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Hispid :	With bristles or (very) long, stiff, bristly hairs. Hairs stiffer and slightly sparser than hirsute.
Parent Term:	Hairs
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Holotype :	A single specimen designated by the author of a plant name, at the time of original publication, which fixes the application of the
Parent Term:	Type_specimen
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Hoop :	(On bark) narrow circle of distinct texture or colour running round tree, twig, etc.
Parent Term:	Bole
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Hyaline :	Colourless, transparent, used mainly for thickened part of some leaf margins.
Parent Term:	Transparency
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Hybrid :	The offspring of two different taxa (species, sub-species etc.), intermediate in character between the parent taxa.
Parent Term:	Genetics
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Hydathode :	Structures (glands) usually on a leaf margin that secrete water (guttation)
Parent Term:	Surface_details
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Hyphodromous :	With a single primary vein and all other venation absent, rudimentary or concealed within a coriaceous or fleshy blade.
Parent Term:	Leaf_venation_(hickey)
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