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Ternates
Ternate In groups of three. This feature helps describe plant form, function, or identification.
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Tetragonals
Tetragonal Having a 4-sided cross section. This feature helps describe plant form, function, or identification.
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Thyrsoids
Thyrsoid Thyrse-like. This feature helps describe plant form, function, or identification.
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dense woolly hairs, Floccose, Floccoses, Indumenta, Indumentum, Lanate, Lanates, long soft hairs, Pilose, Piloses, Tomentoses, Velutinous, Velutinouses, Villosulous, Villosulouses, Villous, Villouses, Woollies, woolly, Woolly
Tomentose A dense wooly covering. This feature helps describe plant form, function, or identification.
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cut off, squared off, Truncates
Truncate Having an end cut straight across (squared off). This feature helps describe plant form, function, or identification.
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Turbinates
Turbinate Shaped like a top. This feature helps describe plant form, function, or identification. Did you know? Some fruits and cones are turbinate, shaped like a spinning top.
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Umbilicates
Umbilicate Having a small depression, like a navel. This feature helps describe plant form, function, or identification.
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Utriculars
Utricular Of or pertaining to a Utricle; bladder-like. This feature helps describe plant form, function, or identification.
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Verticillaster, Verticillasters, Verticillate, Verticillates, Verticils, Whorl, Whorled, Whorleds, Whorls
Verticil An arangement of similar parts around a central axis; a whorl
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Virgates
Virgate Straight, slender and erect. This feature helps describe plant form, function, or identification.
