Having two or more component sectors or peripheral protrusions that are delimited by concavities in the surface or margin and that are not proximally distinct from the remainder of the whole. The meanings of this term and its approximate synonyms sometimes have been supposed to differ according to the depth of the delimiting concavities relative to the midline or midpoint of the overall structure, and/or to the shape or proportions of the protrusions or sectors; however, there has been little consistency in the applications of the various terms according to such distinctions, which are ones only of degree and are necessarily arbitrary in any case. In general usage, these terms differ only indistinctly and connotatively: cleft, lobed (or lobate), parted (or partite) and segmented tend to connote fewer protrusions or sectors; lobate usually connotes as well a generally rounded shape; dissected tends to connote more numerous sectors that are elongate and angular. See also cut (incised, lacerate, torn), laciniate (slashed).
Having two or more component sectors or peripheral protrusions that are delimited by concavities in the surface or margin and that are not proximally distinct from the remainder of the whole. The meanings of this term and its approximate synonyms sometimes have been supposed to differ according to the depth of the delimiting concavities relative to the midline or midpoint of the overall structure, and/or to the shape or proportions of the protrusions or sectors; however, there has been little consistency in the applications of the various terms according to such distinctions, which are ones only of degree and are necessarily arbitrary in any case. In general usage, these terms differ only indistinctly and connotatively: cleft, lobed (or lobate), parted (or partite) and segmented tend to connote fewer protrusions or sectors; lobate usually connotes as well a generally rounded shape; dissected tends to connote more numerous sectors that are elongate and angular. See also cut (incised, lacerate, torn), laciniate (slashed).
Having the number of lobes, divisions or segments indicated by the prefix; as in five-parted.
partial
extent
Not reaching fully from the ovary wall or pericarp to the center of the ovary or fruit and/or from the apex to the base of its interior, thus not completely separating adjacent locules, which are recognized and delimited by extrapolating from the incomplete septal boundary(ies), the ovary or fruit nonetheless effectively unilocular.
Having two or more component sectors or peripheral protrusions that are delimited by concavities in the surface or margin and that are not proximally distinct from the remainder of the whole. The meanings of this term and its approximate synonyms sometimes have been supposed to differ according to the depth of the delimiting concavities relative to the midline or midpoint of the overall structure, and/or to the shape or proportions of the protrusions or sectors; however, there has been little consistency in the applications of the various terms according to such distinctions, which are ones only of degree and are necessarily arbitrary in any case. In general usage, these terms differ only indistinctly and connotatively: cleft, lobed (or lobate), parted (or partite) and segmented tend to connote fewer protrusions or sectors; lobate usually connotes as well a generally rounded shape; dissected tends to connote more numerous sectors that are elongate and angular. See also cut (incised, lacerate, torn), laciniate (slashed).
Having two or more component sectors or peripheral protrusions that are delimited by concavities in the surface or margin and that are not proximally distinct from the remainder of the whole. The meanings of this term and its approximate synonyms sometimes have been supposed to differ according to the depth of the delimiting concavities relative to the midline or midpoint of the overall structure, and/or to the shape or proportions of the protrusions or sectors; however, there has been little consistency in the applications of the various terms according to such distinctions, which are ones only of degree and are necessarily arbitrary in any case. In general usage, these terms differ only indistinctly and connotatively: cleft, lobed (or lobate), parted (or partite) and segmented tend to connote fewer protrusions or sectors; lobate usually connotes as well a generally rounded shape; dissected tends to connote more numerous sectors that are elongate and angular. See also cut (incised, lacerate, torn), laciniate (slashed).
Having the number of lobes, divisions or segments indicated by the prefix; as in tripartite.
patelliform
= kneecap-shaped
solid shape
Thickly meniscoid, like a human kneecap.
patent
= porrect, salient, spreading
orientation
lateral structure
Antrorse and diverging at an acute angle from the bearing structure.
pear-shaped
= pyriform
solid shape
Basically circular in transverse section, broadest toward one end, attenuate toward and much narrower at the other, both ends rounded; slenderly turbinate or obturbinate; like a pear.
pectinate
= comb-shaped
plane shape
Finely divided, the divisions slender, oriented more or less perpendicular to the central axis, and resembling the teeth of a comb.
pedate
= pedatifid
architecture
foliaceous structure
Palmately divided with the two proximal lateral lobes each 2-parted.
pedatifid
= pedate
architecture
foliaceous structure
Palmately divided with the two proximal lateral lobes each 2-parted.
pedicel
< stalk
STRUCTURE
The stalk, when present, of a single flower, except when the flower is solitary and deemed to represent an evolutionarily reduced compound inflorescence borne directly upon a peduncle.
pedicellate
< stalked
architecture
flower
Having a pedicel.
peduncle
<stalk, stipe (broad sense, not recommended)
STRUCTURE
The common stalk, when present, of a compound inflorescence or first-order subunit thereof, or of a solitary flower that is deemed to represent an evolutionarily reduced compound inflorescence.
pedunculate
< stalked
architecture
inflorescence
Having a peduncle.
pellucid
= hyaline; > translucent, transparent
coloration
Transmitting light uniformly.
peloric
architecture
corolla
Regular when the usual condition in the taxon is irregular.
peltate
architecture
foliaceous structure
Petiolate with the petiole attached to the abaxial face of the blade at some point within the margin and otherwise free from the blade.
pendent
= hanging, pendulous
orientation
stalked structure
Having the stalk strongly recurved from its base, the main body oriented downward. See also nutant (cernuous, nodding).
pendulous
= hanging, pendent
orientation
stalked structure
Having the stalk strongly recurved from its base, the main body oriented downward. See also cernuous (nodding, nutant).