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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Flowers pink, verticillate, in opposite clusters around the stem, with several linear and hairy involucres at the base of each cluster.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers
When the leaves are verticillate and numerous, and they become coherent by their margins, they form a foliaceous tube around the stem.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
Most of the species are North American herbs, having opposite, alternate, or verticillate leaves.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various
Cells of the same number as the styles, verticillate, with solitary seeds.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers
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.
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