A reference section with categories and short explanations.
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An individual which, together with others related to it by varying degrees of similarity in properties and characters, makes it possible to distinguish it and its like into a particular taxonomic category; the set of characters and propert…
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Any classificatory unit in systematics (form, genus, species, etc.).
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A specialist systematist engaged in taxonomic matters.
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The theory of classification and systematization of plants, often regarded as synonymous with systematics, although systematics is a broader concept, and taxonomy, as a branch of systematics, deals with the methods and rules of plant class…
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Fragment of the type taken for microscopic studies.
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Maintaining temperature within the parameters optimal for plant development.
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A horticultural technique in which a slow-growing cactus is "grown on" a fast-growing rootstock, then is rooted and continues to live on its own roots.
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Cephalium (see below), located at the apex of the plant.
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The outer covering of a seed, its seed coat, has recently become an important subject in resolving questions of plant classification through the process of "dactyloscopic" analysis of the surface pattern.
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A collection of cells. They are divided into three systems: the protective (epidermis), the conducting (vascular), and the fundamental (ground) — all of these are permanent tissues formed by meristematic tissues (meristems).
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Species fully adapted to the biotype and biotope.
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A specimen collected in the same locality as the type.
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The process of plant respiration, the plant-regulated rate of water loss during life processes. The main organs of transpiration in cacti are the epidermal stomata.
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Outgrowths, bumps. In lichens, these are specialized outgrowths that have become organs of vegetative reproduction.
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A flower with united corolla petals and calyx lobes (sepals) when the perianth is double. Often the petals have a short reflex at the tips.
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The surface layer of soil interwoven with living and dead roots, shoots, and rhizomes of perennial grasses.
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The turgid state of cells, tissues, and organs of a plant that gives them strength and elasticity due to the uptake of a sufficient amount of water; a characteristic of a cactus reflecting the degree of saturation of the stem with moisture.
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Group growth form, a collection of plant stems growing closely together and forming dense multi-headed groups.
