| 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
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| 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
|
| f |
questionable |
|
| h |
Tuft |
Ring-like arranged more or less orthotropously growing shoots, which are tightly-packed because of numerous, spatially more or less regular ramification of the basally crowded, adventitiously rooted parts of the shoots
|
| hk |
Hypocotyl bulb |
Thickend hypocotyl with storage function
|
| p |
Pleiocorm |
System of compact, perennial shoots occuring at the proximal end of the persistent primary root. The innovation buds are situated in the axils of basal leaves. The connections between the shoots and the primary root are persistent
|
| r |
Primary storage root |
Thickened primary root including the thickened hypocotyl and epicotyl, acting as a storage function
|
| 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
|
| su |
Succulence |
Presence of special water storing tissue
|
| sw |
Secondary storage root |
Partly thickened adventitious or lateral root acting as storage. Contrary to root tubers it has not lost primary root functions, such as absorption and anchoring
|
| 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
|
| wk |
Root tuber |
Thickened, not ramified adventitious root, formed by an innovation bud, which primarily acts as storage but rarely as absorption
|
| z |
Bulb |
Compressed part of a shoot, partly with fleshy cataphyllary leaves or leaf bases, acting as storage
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