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Lectotype

Plants; Botany

A specimen selected from among those cited with the original description to serve in place of a holotype where the holotype is missing or destroyed, or where no holotype was designated.

Neotype

Plants; Botany

A specimen selected to serve in place of a holotype where none of the material to which the name was originally applied is known to have been preserved.

Cataphyll

Plants; Botany

A scale leaf associated with a vegetative part of a plant, e.g. Rhizome, perennating bud.

Corona

Plants; Botany

A ring of tissue arising from the corolla or perianth of a flower and standing between the perianth lobes and the stamens.

Annulus

Plants; Botany

A ring; in ferns, the elastic ring of cells, forming part of the sporangium wall, that initiates dehiscence.

Placenta

Plants; Botany

A region, within an ovary, to which ovules are attached.

Keel

Plants; Botany

A ridge like the keel of a boat; in particular, a boat-shaped structure formed by fusion of the two anterior petals of a flower in Fabaceae.

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