vPlants Accepted Plant Terms

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Accepted Plant Terms -- Last modified 2004 December 21

Terms deemed acceptable for use on the vPlants pages (they also occur in the glossary of Swink and Wilhlem); see the online glossary. Terms in [brackets] are to be used only if using the alternative becomes incredibly cumbersome. Other terms may certainly be "defined" on the pages and then have the term in parentheses afterwards, but cannot "stand alone." The exception exists for the larger families with specific terminology (e.g. Poaceae, Cyperaceae, Asteraceae, Fabaceae), where we will create an online glossary pages, with the general diagnostic terms illustrated and defined, that will link from each of the taxon pages in those families.

**Word substitutions: Use non-toothed instead of entire; hairless instead of glabrous; stalkless instead of sessile; unbranched instead of simple. Restrict usage of floret to Asteraceae, Poaceae, Cyperaceae.

Achene [Adventitious] Aerial Aggregated Alternate Ament (& catkin) Angled [Angiosperm] Annual Anther Apex Apical Appressed Aquatic Aromatic Ascending Asymmetrical Axil Axillary Axis Barren Basal Beak Berry - but not only in the strict sense Biennial Bilateral Bilaterally symmetrical Bladder Blade Blunt Bog Boreal Bract Branchlet Bristle Bristly Bud Bulb Bur Calcareous [Calyx] Capsule Catkin Chambered Chlorophyll Clasping Claw Clone Coarse Columnar Compound Compressed Concave Concentric Cone Conical Connected Contracted Convex [Corolla] Corrugated Cottony Cotyledon Crest [Culm] Cultivar Cylindric Cylindrical Deciduous Decumbent Dehiscent Dehiscence Dicot Disc / disk Disk flowers Distinct Divergent Downy Elevated

Elliptic Elliptical Elongate Emergent Emersed Endemic Endosperm [Ephemeral] Erect Evergreen Exfoliating [Exserted] Face Fen Fertile Fibrous Fiddlehead Filament Flange Floret Frond Fruit Fused Genus Gland Glandular Grain Granular [Gymnosperm] Head Herb Herbaceous Hummock Hybrid Immersed Incurved [Indehiscent] Inferior Infertile Inflated Inflorescence Inrolled Internode Jointed Lateral Latex Leaf Leafless Leaflet Linear Lip Lobe Margin Mesic Midrib Midvein Milky Monocot Native Nectar Nerve Nodding Node Non-toothed Nut - probably in a wide sense Oblong Obsolete Opaque Opposite Oval Ovary Ovule Palmate Parallel Parallel-veined Parasite Peat Perennial Persistent

Petal [Petiole] Pinnate [Pistil] Pitted Pods Pore Prickle Primary Prostrate Radially symmetrical Radiate Ray flowers Recurved Reflexed Rhizome Rosette Runner Sac Saline Saprophyte Scale Scalloped Secondary Segment Segmented Sepal Sheath Shrub Solitary Species Spike Spikelet Spine Spore Stalk Stamen Stem Sterile Sticky Stigma Stipule Style Submersed Subtend Subterranean Succulent Suckers Superior Symmetrical Taproot Taxon Teeth Tendril Tepal Terrestrial Thorn Toothed Translucent Tree Tube Tuber Tufted Twig Umbel United Urn-shaped Variety Vascular Vascular bundle Vascular bundle scar Vegetative Vein Venation Vine Wavy Whorl Wing Winged fruit Woolly