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adj. - 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.

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  • The flowers are solitary or cymose and vary in colour from white to purple.
  • 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...
  • Zoosporangia formed from their tips, generally cylindrical or slightly clavate, rarely short and in series; the later ones arising within the empty membranes of preceding ones...
  • 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...
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