Appendices & Glossary - Botanical Research Institute of Texas

FISTULOSE–GLOBOSE/GLOSSARY 1375
FISTULOSE Hollow; lacking pith.
FRUTICOSE Shrubby or bushy in sense of being woody.
FLABELLATE,FLABELLIFORM Fan-shaped;broadly wedge-shaped. FUGACIOUS Falling or disappearing early, usually in reference to
FLACCID Lax, weak, floppy, not rigid.
parts of a flower.
FLAGELLIFORM Whip-like.
FULVOUS Tawny, brownish yellow.
FLANGE A rim-like structure.
FUNICLE, FUNICULUS The stalk attaching an ovule or seed to the
FLAVESCENT Yellowish or becoming yellow.
ovary wall or placenta.
FLESHY Succulent, juicy, or pulpy.
FUNNELFORM (= Infundibuliform) Funnel-shaped; gradually
FLEXUOUS Zigzag; bending or curving alternately in opposite widening upward.
directions.
FURROWED With longitudinal channels or grooves.
FLOCCOSE Covered with tufts of soft woolly hairs.
FUSCOUS Grayish-brown.
FLOCCULENT Minutely floccose.
FUSED United by normal growth.
FLORA (a) Collective term for the plants of an area; (b) a taxo- FUSIFORM Spindle-shaped; with broadest diameter at middle
nomic work on the plants of an area.
tapering to each end.
FLORAL BRACT
rescence.
Reduced leaf subtending a flower in the inflo-
FLORAL ENVELOPE The calyx or corolla; the floral “leaves.” AG
FLORAL TUBE, FLORAL CUP Tube or cup formed by union of sepals, GALEA The helmet-like or hood-like upper lip of a bilabiate
petals, and stamen bases. The structure can be either adnate corolla or calyx, especially one that is strongly concave.
to or free from the ovary; in some cases it is synonymous with GALEATE Hooded, hood-like, or helmet-like.
hypanthium.
GAMETE A sex cell; an egg or sperm.
FLORET (a) Small flower in a dense cluster; (b) in reference to GAMETOPHYTE The gamete-producing,typically haploid genera-
individual flowers of Asteraceae and Poaceae; (c) in grasses tion alternating with the sporophyte (= spore-producing, typi-
referring to the lemma and palea together with the enclosed cally diploid);the stage in the life-history of a plant that produces
reproductive structures.
male or female cells (= gametes); the dominant generation in
FLORICANE Flowering stem of the genus Rubus (dewberries mosses and liverworts. In ferns and fern allies it is green and
and blackberries).
autotrophic, although small; in all flowering plants it is micro-
FLORIFEROUS Bearing or producing flowers.
scopic and develops within the tissues of the sporophyte.
FLOWER An axis bearing stamen(s), pistil(s), or both, and, in GAMO- A prefix meaning united; e.g., gamopetalous or gamo-
addition,often floral envelopes (= calyx and corolla);the reprosepalous.ductive structure of an angiosperm.
GAMOPETALOUS (= Sympetalous) With petals united, at least
FLUTED With alternating ridges and grooves.
basally, forming a tube.
FOLIACEOUS Leaf-like.
GAMOSEPALOUS (= Synsepalous) With sepals united, at least
FOLIAGE Collective term for the leaves of a plant.
basally, forming a tube.
FOLIATE With leaves.
GASTROENTERITIS Inflammation of the stomach and intestines.
FOLIOLATE With leaflets.
It can be caused by a number of plant materials.
FOLIOSE Leafy.
GEMINATE In pairs; twin.
FOLLICLE Dry,one-carpellate fruit dehiscing along one suture only. GEMMA An asexual propagule sometimes appearing as, but
FORB A herbaceous, non-grass-like plant.
not homologous with, a vegetative bud.
FORKED Dichotomous; divided into two equal or nearly equal GENICULATE Bent abruptly, like a knee.
branches.
GENUS (pl. GENERA) The unit, category, or rank in classification
FORMA, FORM (abbreviated f.) A taxon below the rank of variety between family and species; composed of one or more close-
used to refer to minor variations without distinctive geographic ly related species;sometimes divided into subgenera,which in
occurrence; e.g., occasional albinos or seasonal growth forms. turn are made up of species.
This category is generally ignored in this book.
GIBBOUS Swollen basally on one side.
FORNICES Internal appendages in the upper throat of a corolla; GLABRATE, GLABRESCENT Becoming hairless with age.
e.g., in some Boraginaceae.
GLABROUS Without hairs.
FOVEA (pl. FOVEAE). A pit or depression.
GLADIATE Sword-shaped.
FOVEATE Pitted.
GLAND A secreting part or appendage, often protruding or
FOVEOLATE Minutely pitted.
wart-like.
FREE (= Distinct) Separate from one another.
GLANDULAR Having or bearing secreting organs, glands, or
FREE-CENTRAL PLACENTATION Placentation with the seeds attached trichomes.
to a central column and surrounded by a single continuous locule. GLANDULAR-PUBESCENT With gland-tipped, pinhead-like hairs.
FROND The leaf of a fern, often compound or decompound. GLANDULAR-PUNCTATE With glands recessed in depressions.
FRUCTIFEROUS Producing or bearing fruit.
GLAUCESCENT Becoming glaucous.
FRUGIVORE Animal that feeds on fruits.
GLAUCOUS With waxy substances forming a whitish or gray-
FRUIT A mature, ripened pistil or ovary. In the case of accessory silvery covering or bloom.
“fruits”other tissues may be involved.
GLOBOSE Nearly spherical or rounded.