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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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
Most of the species are North American herbs, having opposite, alternate, or verticillate leaves.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various
Flowers terminal, white, verticillate, with the characteristics of the mint family.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
Leaves 1 to 2 in. long, very sharply acute, pale green color, spreading, 4-sided, straight, rigid, slightly glaucous beneath; branches horizontal; branchlets remotely verticillate, numerous, drooping, with light-colored bark.
From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A. C. (Austin Craig) Apgar
Displacement of the parts of the flower from elongation of the receptacle is a not infrequent teratological occurrence, resulting sometimes in the conversion of the verticillate into the spiral arrangement.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
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