umbellate
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Origin of umbellate
1750–60; < New Latin umbellātus, equivalent to Latin umbell ( a ) ( see umbel) + -ātus -ate 1
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Flowers terminal in umbellate panicles, the umbellets opposite and each bearing 3 flowerets.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers
Another illustration of the sort is that recorded by M. Fournier, wherein the usually umbellate inflorescence of Pelargonium was, through the lengthening of the main stalk, transformed into a raceme.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
This fact at once points to an analogy with the umbellate allies, and induces us to examine the insertion of the flowers more critically.
From Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation by Vries, Hugo de
They are individually small, of a creamy-white colour, and produced in long, umbellate racemes, and which when fully developed, from their weight and terminal position, are tilted gracefully to one side.
From Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Webster, Angus Duncan
Otherwise as in Scirpus.—Spikelets single or clustered or umbellate, usually involucrate with erect scale-like bracts, upon a leafy or naked stem; scales membranaceous, 1–3-nerved.
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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