Australian Biological Resources Study
Compiled by A.McCusker
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| alternate: of leaves or other lateral organs, borne singly at different heights on the axis; of floral parts, on a different radius, e.g. describing the position of stamens with respect to petals. cf. opposite.
distichous: arranged in two rows on opposite sides of a stem and thus in the same plane. opposite: of leaves or other lateral organs, borne at the same level but on opposite sides of the stem; of floral parts, on the same radius. cf. alternate. phyllotaxy: the arrangement of leaves on a stem (when spiral, often expressed quantitatively as the fraction of the circumference of the stem that separates two successive leaves). verticillate: arranged in one or more whorls; a false whorl of flowers in a pair of opposite dense cymes, especially in Lamiaceae. whorl: a ring of leaves, bracts or floral parts borne at the same level on an axis. cf. cyclic, spiral. |
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