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Colpus
(In pollen) an oblong-elliptic aperture.
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Colporate
(Of pollen) possessing a wall with compound apertures: linear in the outer wall, rounded in the inner wall.
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Colpate
(Of pollen) possessing a wall with ± linear apertures.
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Colliculate
Covered in small rounded protuberances; minutely hilly.
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Colleter
Multicellular glandular hair-like structure found associated with petioles, stipules and sepals.
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Collecting hairs
(For example, in Compositae/Asteraceae) hairs on the style that collect pollen that is discharged from the anthers.
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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.
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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.
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Coleorhiza
In grasses, sheath that protects the embryonic root or radicle.
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Coleoptile
In monocotyledons, the sheath that protects the emerging shoot while it grows through the soil.
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