Botany

Botany

Terms that are in relation to the study or science of plants.

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Botany

Lomentum

Plants; Botany

A legume having distinct constrictions or lines of abscission between the seeds and breaking into one-seeded segments when mature.

Nomen illegitimum

Plants; Botany

A name which, at the time of its publication, was superfluous (because the taxon to which it was applied had already been named) or had already been applied to another plant.

Claw

Plants; Botany

A narrow, stalk-like basal portion of a petal, sepal or bract.

Nomen rejiciendum

Plants; Botany

A name rejected in favour of a 'nomen conservandum'.

Nomen conservandum

Plants; Botany

A name of a family or genus (or taxon intermediate between these two) that has been formally accepted as the correct name contrary to the usual principles of botanical nomenclature.