Noticeable and Uncovered Shapes: Dark Season Fieldwork
Linnaean Types
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with 5 valves and 10 chambers
awl-shaped, erect
undivided, bent back
thread-like
perpendicular posture
not headed, nor thickened at the tips
with margined fruit
with twisted fruit
with uninflated fruit
with attenuated fruit
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with net-like fruit
with drupe-like fruit
with single valved fruit
with many capsuled fruit
with elastic fruit
with jointed fruit
with fruit dehiscent at the side
bundled, sparse and rayed
sparse and radical
foliation coiled
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radication, fibrous and bundled
stipulation, narrow/none/outspread
ramification, alternate
intorsion, coiled/tendrilled
inflorescence at the back, sessile / somewhat spiked, one-sided
foliation, rolled together, lyre-shaped
pubescence, hardly noticeable
placentation unchanged and uniquely inserted
slightly villious
scabrous
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spindle-shaped
whorled, with bracts
lanceolate
pinnately cleft, with an uncovered shape
glandulation
gemmation
involucre
compound
hollow capsule
Silique: the ancients
A version of this text was presented at the Museum of Garden History, Lambeth, London, 2011