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Palmately

Paniculate

Papilla

Papillose

Pappus

Parotoid

Pea-like

Pedicel

Peduncle

Penial ornament

Percurrent

Perennial

Peristome

Petal


Petiole

Phenotype

Phyllary

Pinnate

Pinnatifid

Pistil


Plastron

Pleurocarpous

Plumage

Pod

Primaries

Prostrate

Pubescent

Radiating from a common point, like the fingers on a hand.

Inflorescence much branched, lower flowers open before upper ones.

Minute wart-like projection.

With one or more small projection from cells.

Bristles, scales, hairs or crown at tip of achene, in sunflowers.

One pair of large wart-like gland at the back of head of toads.

Flower petals in the form of banner, wings, and keel.

Stalk supporting a single flower.

Stalk supporting an inflorescence.

Reproductive organ in snails.

Reaches the apex but does not extend beyond.

A plant which lives two or more years.

Fringe of teeth around the mouth of a capsule of mosses.

Individual member of the corolla, may be fused or not, often brightly colored.

Stem or stalk of a leaf blade.

Variation of a character in a population.

Individual bract of an involucre (flower head) central midvein.

Featherlike; venation pattern of a leaf in which veins diverge from a single midvein.

Deeply cut in a pinnate fashion, but not divided to the central midvein.

The female organ of a flower, ordinarily differentiated into ovary, style and stigma.

Lower part of tortoise shell.

Producing the spore-bearing structure on branches below the apex.

Feathers of a bird.

Any kind of dehiscent (splitting) dry fruit.

The outer most and longest flight feathers on a bird’s wing

Lying flat along the ground.

Covered with soft, short hairs, downy.