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Calathium
A compact cluster of ± sessile flowers.
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Caespitose
Growing in tight groups, the bases of the individual plants touching [preferred term]. Growing in tufts, mats, or clumps. Growing in tufts like turf.
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Caesious
(Colour) variously defined as pale bluegrey or pale blue-green; sometimes defined as with a coating of minute greenish waxy particles that rub off, greenish-pruinose.
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Caducous
Falling off soon after formation, not persistent. The use of ‘early caducous’ or ‘quickly caducous’ is incorrect, ‘falling early’ would be better. Dropping off very early, like the sepals of Podophyllum, which fall as the flower expands.
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CaCO3
Calcium carbonate, lime, chalk.
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C3, C4
Metabolic pathways for carbon dioxide fixation; C3 plants tend to do well in areas of moderate temperatures and plentiful water with high atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration, whereas C4 plants have a competitive advantage under hot and arid conditions.
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Buzz-pollination
Usually of flowers with porate anthers, where the pollen is shaken from the thecae by the vibration of the body of a visiting bee.
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Buttressed
Of the lower trunk of a tree, with buttresses.
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Buttress
Mechanical supporting system at the base of a tree, usually a woody fin. Flattened support structures at the base of the trunk of certain types of trees, particularly in the tropics. Planklike supporting structure extending outward from the base of a tree trunk at the juncture of the roots and trunk. Some are relatively narrow…
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Bush
Woody plant intermediate between shrub and tree, 3–7 m high and usually multistemmed [not recommended]; Low and thick shrub, usually without a distinct trunk [not recommended]; Often used in the same sense as shrub [shrub is preferred in this case]; Undefined term for dense vegetation [not recommended, bushland seems better]. Woody plant with many stems…
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