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Obclavates
Obclavate Club shaped, with the attachment at the broad end. This feature helps describe plant form, function, or identification.
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Oblanceolates
Oblanceolate Shaped like a long point, with the narrow end at the point of attachment. The inverse of lanceolate.
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Obliques
Oblique Slanting. This feature helps describe plant form, function, or identification.
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blunt, Obtuses
Obtuse Blunt. This feature helps describe plant form, function, or identification.
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often on very poor soils
often on very poor soil A type of small green plant, sometimes only 1/16 (2 mm.) and mostly less than 2" (5 cm.) high. Mosses have tiny stems and leaves and reproduce by means of spores instead of seeds. They grow in moist locations
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Oppositelies, Oppositely, Opposites
Opposite Having leaves in pairs, each pair emerging from a single node
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Orbiculars, Orbiculate, Orbiculates, Suborbicular, Suborbiculars
Orbicular Approximately circular in outline. This feature helps describe plant form, function, or identification.
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Oblate, Oblates, Obovate, Obovates, Ovates, Ovoid, Ovoids
Ovate Having an oval or egg-shaped outline, wider at the point of attachment
