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Declared Rare and Poorly Known Flora in the Geraldton District

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paniculatepapillapappuspedicelpedunclepeltatepenicillateperennialperianthpetalpetiolephyllodephyllocladep<strong>in</strong>nap<strong>in</strong>nulepilosep<strong>in</strong>natep<strong>in</strong>natifidp<strong>in</strong>natisectpistilplacentaplumosepodpollen presenterpoll<strong>in</strong>ationprocumbent<strong>in</strong>determ<strong>in</strong>ate <strong>and</strong> much brancheda small, elongated protuberance on <strong>the</strong> surface of an organ, usually an extension ofone epidermal cell. adj. papillosea tuft (or r<strong>in</strong>g) of hairs or scales borne above <strong>the</strong> ovary <strong>and</strong> outside <strong>the</strong> corolla <strong>in</strong>Asteraceae <strong>and</strong> possibly represent<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> calyx; a tuft of hairs on a fruit<strong>the</strong> stalk of a flower. adj. pedicellate<strong>the</strong> stalk of an <strong>in</strong>florescence; <strong>in</strong> ferns, <strong>the</strong> stalk of a sporocarp. adj. pedunculateof a leaf, hav<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> stalk attached to <strong>the</strong> lower surface of <strong>the</strong> blade, not <strong>the</strong> marg<strong>in</strong>(also applied <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> same sense to o<strong>the</strong>r stalked structures)pencil-shaped; tufted like an artist's brusha plant whose life span extends over more than two grow<strong>in</strong>g seasons<strong>the</strong> calyx <strong>and</strong> corolla of a flower, especially where <strong>the</strong> two are similara member of <strong>the</strong> <strong>in</strong>ner whorl of non-fertile parts surround<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> fertile organs of aflower, usually soft <strong>and</strong> coloured conspicuously<strong>the</strong> stalk portion of a leafa leaf whose blade is much reduced or absent, <strong>and</strong> whose petiole <strong>and</strong> rachis haveassumed <strong>the</strong> functions of <strong>the</strong> whole leaf. cf. cladodea very leaf-like, photosyn<strong>the</strong>tic stem of a plant whose true leaves are much reduced.cf. cladophyllone of <strong>the</strong> primary divisions or leaflets of a p<strong>in</strong>nate leafa leaflet of a bip<strong>in</strong>nate leafhairy, <strong>the</strong> hairs soft <strong>and</strong> clearly separated but not sparsedivided <strong>in</strong>to p<strong>in</strong>nae; once-compound. cf. bip<strong>in</strong>natecut deeply <strong>in</strong>to lobes that are spaced out along <strong>the</strong> axis (of <strong>the</strong> leaf). cf. palmatifiddissected down to <strong>the</strong> midrib but hav<strong>in</strong>g <strong>the</strong> segments confluent with ita free carpel or a group of fused carpelsa region, with<strong>in</strong> an ovary, to which ovules are attachedlike a fea<strong>the</strong>r; with f<strong>in</strong>e hairs branch<strong>in</strong>g from a central axisa legum<strong>in</strong>ous fruit<strong>the</strong> modified style end <strong>in</strong> Banksia<strong>the</strong> transfer of pollen from <strong>the</strong> male organ, where it is formed, to <strong>the</strong> receptive regionof a female organ, e.g. from an<strong>the</strong>r to stigmatrail<strong>in</strong>g or spread<strong>in</strong>g along <strong>the</strong> ground but not root<strong>in</strong>g at <strong>the</strong> nodes54

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