| label |
name |
description |
| a |
Runner |
Lateral shoot (exceptional main shoot) with long thin internodes and adventitious roots. Severance from the mother plant causes the formation of individual ramets
|
| ak |
Runner with tuberous tip |
Tuberous swelling of several internodes at the distal end of a subterranean runner, which mostly develops at the end of the vegetation period for storing food. Above ground shoots develop from the tuber the following season
|
| ar |
Runner-like rhizome |
Subterranean or close to the surface situated shoot with cataphyllary leaves, which is more or less thickened, adventitiously rooted and long-lived (> 1 year). Difficult to distinguish whether the storage or the spread function is of prime importance
|
| az |
Runner with bulbous tip |
Bulb at the distal end of a subterranean runner used for vegetative propagation, spread and storage, and sprouting the following season
|
| b |
Bulbil |
Compressed above ground, vegetative lateral shoot with disproportionately developed or still absent organs, which develops into a new independently viable plant after severance from the mother plant, acting as propagation
|
| bs |
Brood shoot |
Spikelet of Poaceae, which has been transformed into a small shoot
|
| f |
questionable |
|
| fr |
Fragmentation |
Vegetative reproduction and spread by disintegration of the mother plant or abscission of independently viable parts of shoots
|
| g |
Gemma |
Bud formed on the gametophyte of ferns which develops into a gametophyte again after separation from the mother plant
|
| is |
Innovation bud with storage root |
Innovation bud with a secondary storage root (see definition) on its base
|
| iw |
Innovation bud with root tuber |
Innovation bud with a root tuber (see definition) on its base
|
| ps |
Phyllogenous shoot |
Adventitious shoot developing on a leaf (e.g. at the base of a leaf feather or within a notch at the margin), becoming independently viable after abscission from the mother plant
|
| rh |
Rhizome |
Subterranean or close to the soil surface, mostly thickened shoot with short internodes, adventitious roots and (mostly) cataphyllary leaves. It stores and is long-lived (> 1 year). Ramification followed by distal decaying causes the formation of ramets
|
| rp |
Rhizome-like pleiocorm |
System of more or less crowded shoots, persisting several years which arise mainly at the proximal end of the primary root especially in the first years of the individual cycle. At first the innovation shoots arise from basal leaf axils, later from the rhizome like, adventitiously rooted shoots, which later lose their connection with the primary root
|
| sk |
Shoot tuber |
Thickened, mostly subterranean, roundish, short lived (< 1 year) part of a shoot which is used as storage
|
| t |
Turio |
Vegetative compressed, mostly bud like shoot, which hibernates with leaves or parts of leaves and sprouts only after severance from the mother plant
|
| ws |
Root shoot |
Adventitiously-rooted shoot growing from a main or lateral root. It is either leafless or has cataphyllary leaves during growth within the soil
|
| z |
Bulb |
Compressed part of a shoot, partly with fleshy cataphyllary leaves or leaf bases, acting as storage
|
