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stylopodium

American  
[stahy-luh-poh-dee-uhm] / ˌstaɪ ləˈpoʊ di əm /

noun

Botany.
stylopodia plural
  1. a glandular disk or expansion surmounting the ovary and supporting the styles in plants of the parsley family.


stylopodium British  
/ ˌstaɪləˈpəʊdɪəm /

noun

  1. botany a swelling at the base of the style in umbelliferous plants

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Etymology

Origin of stylopodium

From New Latin, dating back to 1825–35; see origin at stylo- 1, -podium

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Leaves simply pinnate, with sharply toothed leaflets; flowers white; fruit oblong, 1´´ long; stylopodium cushion-like.—Rocky shores of Delaware River; Sycamore, Ohio.

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 Gray, Asa

Fruit ovate or oblong, flattened laterally; stylopodium conical; prickles barbed or hooked; seed-face deeply sulcate.

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 Gray, Asa

The base of the styles is frequently thickened and cushion-like, and called the stylopodium.

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 Gray, Asa

Glaucous, 1–3° high, slender, branching; leaves 2–3-ternate, with lanceolate to ovate entire leaflets; flowers yellow; fruit broadly oblong, 2´´ long; stylopodium small or wanting.

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 Gray, Asa

Fruit linear, long-beaked, without ribs or oil-tubes, and with conical stylopodium.

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 Gray, Asa

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