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- valvate
- of sepals and petals in bud, which meet edge to edge but do not overlap.
- valve
- a portion of an organ that fragments or splits open, for example the teeth-like portions of a pericarp in a split (dehisced) capsule.
- var
- see varietas.
- variant
- a plant or group of plants showing some measure of difference from the characteristics associated with a particular taxon.
- varietas (variety in common usage, abbreviated as var.)
- (Latin) in the Linnean hierarchy a rank below that of species, between the ranks of subspecies and form.
- variegated
- irregularly marked with blotches or patches of another colour.
- Vasculum
- Container used by botanists for collecting field specimines.
- vein
- a strand of vascular tissue; nerve.
- veinlet
- a small vein; the ultimate (visible) division of a vein.
- velvety
- densely covered with fine, short, soft, erect hairs.
- venation
- the arrangement of veins in a leaf.
- ventral
- the front; in particular, towards the axis in a lateral organ or towards substratum in prostrate plant; compare dorsal.
- vernation
- the arrangement of unexpanded leaves in a bud; the order of unfolding of leaves from a bud.
- verrucose
- with warts.
- versatile
- of anthers, swinging freely about the point of attachment to the filament.
- verticillate
- arranged in one or more whorls.
- vescicular
- of hairs, bladder-like; vesciculous, bearing such hairs.
- vessel
- a capillary tube formed from a series of open-ended cells in the water-conducting tissue of a plant.
- vestigial
- reduced in form and function from the normal or ancestral condition.
- villous
- Abounding in or covered with long, soft, straight hairs; shaggy with soft hairs.
- vine
- 1. Vitis.
- 2. Scandent plants climbing by means of trailing or twining stem or runner.
- 3. Such a stem or runner
- viscid
- sticky; coated with a thick, syrupy secretion.
- viviparous
- 1. seeds or fruits which germinate before being shed from the parent plant.
- 2. the development of plantlets on non-floral organs e.g. leaves.
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