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Replum
Plants; Botany

A longitudinal partition in an ovary, formed between parietal placentas.

Lenticel
Plants; Botany

A loosely-packed mass of cells in the bark of a woody plant, visible on the surface of a stem as a raised powdery spot, through which gaseous exchange occurs.

Sepal
Plants; Botany

A member of the (usually green) outer whorl of non-fertile parts surrounding the fertile organs of a flower.

Suture
Plants; Botany

A line of junction between two fused organs; a line of dehiscence.

Prophyll
Plants; Botany

A leaf formed at the base of a shoot, usually smaller than those formed subsequently.

Phyllode
Plants; Botany

A leaf whose blade is much reduced or absent, and whose petiole and rachis have assumed the functions of the whole leaf. Cf. Cladode.

Bract
Plants; Botany

A leaf-like structure, different in form from the foliage leaves and without an axillary bud, associated with an inflorescence or flower.

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