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Salverforms
Salverform Shape of a flower with a slender tube expanding into petals shaped like a flat disk Did you know? Phlox flowers are salverform, with a narrow tube opening suddenly into a flat face.
Glossary: Flower / inflorescence morphology
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Scapes, Scapiform, Scapiforms, Scapose, Scaposes
Scape A flower stalk arising from the ground. This feature helps explain how flowers are arranged, how pollination happens, or how seeds begin to form.
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Spathes
Spathe A bract or leaf encasing a flower cluster. This feature helps explain how flowers are arranged, how pollination happens, or how seeds begin to form. Did you know? The colorful part of a peace lily is a spathe, a modified bract, not a true petal.
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Catkin, Catkins, Spadix, Spadixes, Spicate, Spicates, Spikelet, Spikelets, Spikes
Spike A flowering stem with flowers directly attached. This feature helps explain how flowers are arranged, how pollination happens, or how seeds begin to form.
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Spurs
Spur A specialized short twig of certain fruit trees on which flowers and fruit are borne. A thin spike-like part attached to a flower or other structure.
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Steriles
Sterile Describing a flower that cannot produce viable seeds. This feature helps explain how flowers are arranged, how pollination happens, or how seeds begin to form.
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Cone, Cones, Strobile, Strobiles, Strobiluses
Strobilus A cone. This feature helps explain how flowers are arranged, how pollination happens, or how seeds begin to form. Did you know? Pine cones are strobili; their scales protect seeds until conditions are right for release.
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Sympetalouses
Sympetalous With petals united, at least near the base. This feature helps explain how flowers are arranged, how pollination happens, or how seeds begin to form.
