Category: S

Saddle-shaped, compound-curved, convex from front to back and convex from side to side [unusual term].  

(Of a flower) fertilised by its own pollen. Of an ovary fertilised by pollen of the same flower or from another flower on the same plant.  

Anything tending to produce inheritable change between one generation and the next. In epidemiology, factors that influence the composition of the populations being studied so as to confuse comparisons between groups. An act of choosing one person, thing or group, but not others. The process of choosing or selecting; choice.  

Splitting off.  

A taxon split off, or removed, from another taxon.  

Shaped like a segment of an orange (unusual term in Euphorbiaceae).  

(In palms) a division of a palmate or costapalmate leaf blade; (In ferns) the ultimate segment, i.e. the smallest division, of a compound frond. One of the parts of a leaf, calyx, corolla or perianth. One of the subdivisons of any cleft body. A part of an organ or piece of tissue which is clearly…

Growing spontaneously on agricultural land.  

Juvenile plant recently arisen from the seed.  

Cotyledon. The leaves contained in the seed which are the first to appear when a seedling germinates; they are different from those that follow. Plants are classified according to whether there are one or two. The leaves contained in the seed which are the first to appear when a seedling germinates; they are different from…