Category: C

(From the Latin combinatio nova) new combination, the specific epithet used with another genus name.  

In the form of a column or pillar. Shaped like column or narrow cylinder, used to describe the crown shape of certain trees.    

(In an orchid flower) a ventral extension at the base of the column, the lip is attached at its tip.  

(In orchids) the adnate styles and stamens forming a solid central body; The tube of connate anther filaments (e.g. in Malvaceae); (In grasses) the lower twisted part of the awn. A center structure in a flower formed by united stamens, or stamens united with style or stigma. The adnate styles and stamens forming a solid…

Persistent central axis around which the fruit locules are arranged. The axis to which the carpels of a compound fruit are attached. A part resembling a small column. For example, the columella cochleae (modiolus) is the central pillar of the cochlea, around which the spiral cochlear canal winds. The columella nasi is the anterior part…

Snake-like.  

(In pollen) an oblong-elliptic aperture.  

(Of pollen) possessing a wall with compound apertures: linear in the outer wall, rounded in the inner wall.  

(Of pollen) possessing a wall with ± linear apertures.  

Covered in small rounded protuberances; minutely hilly.