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Crispates
Crispate Having a curled or ruffled edge. This feature helps describe plant form, function, or identification.
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cross shaped, cross-shaped, Cruciforms
Cruciform Cross-shaped. This feature helps describe plant form, function, or identification. Did you know? Broccoli, cabbage, kale, radish, and mustard all belong to a family known for four-petaled, cross-shaped flowers.
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Cuneates
Cuneate Wedge or triangular-shaped. This feature helps describe plant form, function, or identification.
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Cupulates
Cupulate Cup-shaped. This feature helps describe plant form, function, or identification.
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Cylindrical, cylindrical, Cylindricals, Cylindrics, Terete, Teretes
Cylindric Shaped like a cylinder - elongated and round in cross section.
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Decumbents, lying flat with tip up
Decumbent Lying flat on the ground but with the tip pointing up.
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Deltates, Deltoid, Deltoids
Deltate Shaped like an equilateral triangle. This feature helps describe plant form, function, or identification.
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Dentates, toothed
Dentate Toothed. This feature helps describe plant form, function, or identification.
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Depauperates
Depauperate Stunted or poorly developed. This feature helps describe plant form, function, or identification.
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Disarticulatings
Disarticulating Separating at its joints when mature. This feature helps describe plant form, function, or identification.
