rhipidium


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rhipidium

(rɪˈpɪdɪəm)
n
(Botany) a fan-shaped arrangement of flowers on a plant
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A rhipidium is a (cymously) built partial inflorescence in which the prophyll of a lateral axis subtends a new lateral axis, each axis ending in a flower.
This phenomenon has also been explained by recaulescence, so that the "spikelet" is seen as a sympodial inflorescence unit resembling a rhipidium (e.
A floral ontogenetic approach to questions of homology within the Cyperoideae (Cyperaceae)
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