ADJECTIVE
- having a usually flat-topped flower cluster in which the main and branch stems each end in a flower that opens before those below it or to its side
How To Use cymose In A Sentence
- Their inflorescences are racemose or cymose, and aggregated in dichasial units.
- S. wallichii and S. wightianus, native to India, produce numerous small flowers in terminal cymose or corymbose inflorescences.
- Their inflorescences are racemose or cymose, and aggregated in dichasial units.
- The terminal and erect cymose inflorescence bears actinomorphic, hexamerous, dish-shaped flowers.
- Instances of adhesion between different organs is seen under ordinary circumstances in the bract of the Lime tree, which adheres to the peduncle, also in _Neuropeltis_, while in _Erythrochiton hypophyllanthus_ the cymose peduncles are adherent to the under surface of the leaf. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
- The buckwheat inflorescence is a compound raceme that produces laterally flowered cymose clusters, the number of which was affected by the position of the inflorescence along the main stem.
- Prolification in both varieties is also more frequently met with in branched inflorescences than in those in which the flowers are sessile; but the degree of branching seems less material, inasmuch as this malformation is more commonly recorded as occurring in racemes than in the more branched panicles, &c. From the similar arrest of growth in length, in the case of the flower, to that which occurs in the stem in the case of definite inflorescence, it might have been expected that axillary prolification would be more frequent in plants having a cymose arrangement of their flowers than in those whose inflorescence is indefinite; such, however, is not the case. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
- The Costa Rican material better concords with tribe Cheloneae sensu Thieret, characterized by bracteolate, cymose or racemose inflorescences and sterile posterior stamen filaments.
- Cymose inflorescences, arising opposite to leaves (not axillary) near the ends of branches, bear gamopetalous flowers with 5-lobed corollas, which are white, yellow, purple, blue or striped, and about 3 cm across. Chapter 25
- The instances just cited all occur in plants having an indefinite form of inflorescence; but the production of a tuft of leaves or of a leafy shoot above or beyond the inflorescence is not confined to plants with this habit of growth, for Jacquin figures and describes an instance of this nature in the cymose flower-stems of a Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants