verticillate
Americanadjective
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disposed in or forming verticils or whorls, as flowers or hairs.
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having flowers, hairs, etc., so arranged or disposed.
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The panicle in Sporobolus coromandelianus is pyramidal and the branches are all verticillate, the lower being longer than the upper.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
Conelets single or verticillate, their scales mucronate; conelets of the second year only slightly enlarged.
From The Genus Pinus by Shaw, George Russell
This arrangement may be thus formularised: 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 In the verticillate or simultaneous arrangement of leaves the case is somewhat different.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
Displacement of the parts of the flower from elongation of the receptacle is a not infrequent teratological occurrence, resulting sometimes in the conversion of the verticillate into the spiral arrangement.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
Leaves 1 to 2 in. long, very sharply acute, pale green color, spreading, 4-sided, straight, rigid, slightly glaucous beneath; branches horizontal; branchlets remotely verticillate, numerous, drooping, with light-colored bark.
From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)
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