Category: I

Thin, slightly transparent, swollen as if blown up with air, bladdery. Puffed out like a bladder.  

Usually with reference to an ovary that has the calyx above it; Rarely of other flower parts that are inserted below the ovary [not recommended]. A term used in exercise to describe one body part’s position in relation to another. Inferior means below. Grown below some other organ. Describes an ovary located low in a…

Unarmed, without spines or thorns.  

With the two sides unequal.  

Placed after a taxon name to mean ineditus, ‘unpublished’.  

(In ferns) a thin flap of tissue covering the sorus when young (and sometimes also when old); A cup covering the stigma (as in Goodeniaceae). (Of stinkhorns) A lacy veil that hangs down from the cap.  

Becoming hardened.  

Hardened.  

(In sepals or petals) the margins folded inwards but not overlapping; (In palms) V-shaped in cross-section. With the edges turned inward. Curved inwards but not overlapping or v-shaped in cross-section, usually with reference to margins.