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adj. - Forming one or more whorls (especially a whorl of leaves around a stem).

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  • In the verticillate or simultaneous arrangement of leaves the case is somewhat different.
  • The root-leaves are somewhat heart-shaped, thick, and fleshy; stem simple, with verticillate branches; flower dioecious.
  • When the leaves are verticillate and numerous, and they become coherent by their margins, they form a foliaceous tube around the stem.
  • The leaves are of a pale green colour, sometimes a little bronzed at the tips, veined, entire, bald, lance-shaped, and, as before hinted, verticillate; they vary much in...
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