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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The panicle in Sporobolus coromandelianus is pyramidal and the branches are all verticillate, the lower being longer than the upper.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
Cells of the same number as the styles, verticillate, with solitary seeds.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
Herbs or shrubs; leaves simple, entire, opposite with stipules, or verticillate, usually turning black in drying.
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
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 Jerome Beers Thomas
The capsule may open by two, three, or four valves,—or by pores; the seeds, generally numerous, are sometimes solitary, and the leaves may be alternate, opposite, or verticillate.
From Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers by John Ruskin
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