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Infundibuliform    [ Botany ]

Dictionary of botanic terminology - index of names

Synonym: Funnelform, Funnel-shaped
     
  Shaped like a funnel (a circular, narrowing tube), describes a flower or other plant part that is shaped like a funnel or cone.  
     
[Latin “infundibulum” funnel + -form]  


Funnel-shaped flowers
( Rebutia heliosa )

An infundibuliform flowers is a flower shaped like a funnel or inverted cone, with petals either fused or overlapping and usually joined into a short tube at the base, that is of a corolla tube, widening gradually and uniformly from the bottom upward.
 
     

 


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Holdfast roots  [ Botany  ]

Dictionary of botanic terminology - index of names

 
     
  Some species of climbing plants develop holdfast roots which help to support the vines on trees, walls, and rocks. By forcing their way into minute pores and crevices, they hold the plant firmly in place.  
     
Climbing plants, like the poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans), Boston ivy (Parthenocissus tricuspidata), and trumpet creeper (Campsis radicans),  develop holdfast roots which help to support the vines on trees, walls, and rocks. By forcing their way into minute pores and crevices, they hold the plant firmly in place. Usually the Holdfast roots die at the end of the first season, but in some species they are perennial. In the tropics some of the large climbing plants have hold-fast roots by which they attach themselves, and long, cord-like roots that extend downward through the air and may lengthen and branch for several years until they strike the soil and become absorbent roots.

Major references and further lectures:
1) E. N. Transeau “General Botany” Discovery Publishing House, 1994
     

 

 

 

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