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• a variation of obconical.

obconic

British  

/ ɒbˈkɒnɪk /

adjective

1. botany (of a fruit or similar part) shaped like a cone and attached at the pointed end

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obconic

Prostrate, horizontally branched, copiously rooting; leaves imbricate, horizontal, oval, entire or slightly repand; underleaves lanceolate; perianth terminal, broadly obconic, the mouth compressed, repand-crenulate.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

Perigynium obconic or obovoid, squarrose in exceedingly dense short spikes.—Sp.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

The spikelets are one-to two-flowered, subsessile and subsecund on the branches which are produced as awn-like bristles beyond the ultimate spikelet, obscurely jointed and persistent on their obconic short pedicels, narrowly lanceolate and terete.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari

The pileus is fleshy, soft, flexible, convex, to expanded, or obconic, plane or depressed, or funnel-shaped, the margin strongly inrolled when young, in age simply incurved, the margin plane or repand and undulate.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by George Francis Atkinson

The plants are small, obconic, truncate, broadly open; externally ferruginous, with a hairy tomentum, internally lead-color, smooth, striated.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard