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scabrid

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scabrid [ˈskæbrɪd]
adj
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Biology) having a rough or scaly surface
[see scabrous]
scabridity  [skəˈbrɪdɪtɪ] n


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This hypothesis suggests that the ancestor was a woody plant with alternate leaves, large and discoid capitula, actinomorphic deeply five-lobed corollas, caudate and calcarate anthers with sterile apical appendages, shortly bilobed styles glabrous or papillose with continuous stigmatic areas, and a pappus of scabrid bristles.
Cypselae densely long-villose; pappus of scabrid to barbellate bristles, the innermost flat, longer, and wider than the others and barbellate at the apex.
Cypselae glabrous; pappus of numerous, scabrid bristles in female florets, and flatter, seta-like, and relatively few scabrid bristles in male florets.
 
 
 
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