Category: L

Abbreviation of longitudinal section.  

Diamond-shaped with rather elongated sides. A sweet medicinal tablet. A medicated tablet containing sugar. Lozenges should dissolve slowly in the mouth so that the medication is applied to the mouth and throat. These are small tablets comprising drugs mixed with sugar, gum, glycerin-jelly or fruit-paste. They are used in various affections of the mouth and…

Strap-shaped.  

Shoot, usually a main axis or extension shoot, with long internodes.  

A flat fruit, common in Leguminosae/Fabaceae, constricted between each seed and falling apart at the constrictions into singleseeded units. A flat fruit that is constricted between each seed.  

Bearing a lomentum; Resembling a lomentum.  

(In Gramineae/Poaceae florets) minute scales between the lemma and fertile flower parts, possibly representing the perianth.  

(In Cyperaceae, Gramineae/Poaceae) elongated or reduced axis with 1–many glumes, each glume subtending a bisexual or unisexual flower.  

The site where the type of a plant species was originally collected.  

When a ripe capsule splits into the cells, i.e. splits not at the lines of junction between the locules (i.e. septa) but along the midrib or dorsal suture (e.g. in many Liliaceae). Dehiscent along the midrib of a carpel of an ovary containing more than one chamber and carpel. Splitting through the middle of the…