Category: C
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Conferted
(Of leaves) closely packed or crowded together.
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Cone scale
Scale of the fruit of a gymnosperm, of which the form is often useful in identification.
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Cone
(Shape) a symmetrical 3-dimensional shape with the base a circle, the sides straight and narrowing to a point at the apex; The fruit of a gymnosperm with the scales overlapping (properly a strobilus), and hence any inflorescence or fruit with overlapping scales. One of the special retinal receptor elements which are presumed to be primarily…
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Conduplicate
Folded together lengthwise with the upper surfaces closely parallel and facing each other (e.g. unfolding leaves). Folded upon itself on its longest diameter, like a double sheet of note paper.
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Condensed
Dense (of inflorescence). Made compact or more dense.
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Concrescent
Growing together.
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Concolorous
(Of different sides of a leaf ) of one and the same colour.
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Conchiform
Shaped like the shell of a bivalve mollusc such as a mussel [unusual term].
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Conceptacle
In ferns, the fruit case of a sporocarp [unusual term]. A hollow structure containing sex organs.
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Concensus tree
In cladistics, the hierarchical summary of topological information from several or many cladograms.