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Meaning of "pappus"
Pappus refers to the feathery structure on seeds that helps in dispersal by the wind
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- The markedly reduced sepals of an Asteraceae floret that take the form of trichomes or scale attached to the ovary or seed.
- The first hair on the chin.
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The pappus is a crown of short fimbriate scales.
The fruit is an achene with a hairy pappus.
Pappus graph coloured to highlight various cycles.
The fruit usually has a pappus of scales.
The pappus is absent or consists of a minute fringe.
The fruit is a flattened achene without pappus.
The pappus is arranged in two whorls.
The fruit is a cypsela with a pappus of scales.
Pappus bristles are finely toothed and twice as long as achenes.
The fruit has a pappus of fine white bristles.
And these are undoubtedly pappus.
The fruit is an achene with a pappus up to a centimeter long.
The fruit is bristly with pappus.
The pappus extends beyond the disc floret tubes.
The fruit is a cylindrical achene with a pappus of scales.
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The seed has a fluffy pappus and is easily dispersed by wind.
The fruit is a hairy achene with a long pappus.
The fruit is an achene with a pappus of white bristles.
The fruits are generally hard and black with a pappus.
The other genera have a pappus of simple unbranched hairs.
The fruit is an achene with no pappus.
The fruit is an achene with a pappus made up of two awns.
The fruit is a hairy achene with a bushy tawny pappus.
The fruit is a cypsela with a pappus of many barbed bristles.
Fruits are akenes with double pappus.
Each fruit has a pappus of stiff white or light brown hairs.
The fruit is a tiny resinous achene with a pappus of hairs.
The pappus is less than one millimeter long in most species.
The fruit is over a centimeter long including its pappus.
Pappus centroid theorem.
The fruits are glabrous achenes with hairy appendages pappus.
Pappus hexagon theorem.
The fruit is a tiny achene tipped with a bristly pappus.
Seeds are small achenes each with a pappus and are distributed by wind.
The fruit is an achene a few millimeters long which lacks a pappus.
The achene is ribbed and has a pappus of bristles and hairs.
The fruit may be nearly a centimeter long including its pappus.
The fruit is an achene with a pappus that helps it disperse on the wind.
Bristles called the pappus.
Pappus or border.
Arno was the pappus.
The cypselas do not have pappus at their top but are encased by the paleae.
It is coated in rough hairs and usually has a pappus on the tip.
The pappus bristles are sometimes thickened near the apex but are of nearly uniform length.
The fruit is an achene at least a centimeter long including its pappus.
That pappus and the bees were right the best shape to use was the hexagon.
First theorem of pappus.
Therefore the Pappus graph is a symmetric graph.
The fruit is an achene about a centimeter long topped with a white pappus.
The pappus is the same as Lactuca serriola.
