petaloid
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It presents great varieties of form, such as a ring, scales, Disk. glands, hairs, petaloid appendages, &c., and in the progress of growth it often contains saccharine matter, thus becoming truly nectariferous.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
The pileus varies from a regular wedge-shape to spathulate, or more or less irregularly petaloid, or conchoid forms, the extremes of size and form being shown in Figs.
From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis
In some of these double orchids it is, however, necessary not to confound a petaloid condition of the existing column with the development of usually suppressed stamens in a petaloid form.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
Stamens 8, free, short, alternating with 8 petaloid, conical, pubescent staminodia.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers
Sepals.—Five; petaloid; the upper prolonged upward into a spur containing the smaller spurs of the two upper petals.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth
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