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  • Colpus

    (In pollen) an oblong-elliptic aperture.  

  • Colporate

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

  • Colpate

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

  • Colliculate

    Covered in small rounded protuberances; minutely hilly.  

  • Colleter

    Colleter

    Multicellular glandular hair-like structure found associated with petioles, stipules and sepals.  

  • Collecting hairs

    (For example, in Compositae/Asteraceae) hairs on the style that collect pollen that is discharged from the anthers.  

  • Collateral

    Cotyledons equal in seed (as opposed to superposed); Bud lateral to axillary bud; (Of seeds in Annonaceae) side by side. A small side branch of a blood vessel or nerve.  

  • Collar

    Collar

    In general, an encircling band; The part of the plant on the boundary of underground parts and above-ground parts; Free portion of floral tube, above the casing and below the neck; Junction between sheath and blade of a leaf.  

  • Coleorhiza

    Coleorhiza

    In grasses, sheath that protects the embryonic root or radicle.  

  • Coleoptile

    In monocotyledons, the sheath that protects the emerging shoot while it grows through the soil.  

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