For this reason the species is called acaulescent, indicating that it has no other stem than the subterranean rootstock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference

Absolute suppression of the main axis is tantamount to the non-existence of the plant, so that the terms "acaulescent," "acaulosia," etc, must be considered relatively only, and must be taken to signify an atrophied or diminished size of the stem, arising from the non-development of the internodes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

This conclusion being accepted, the accidental re-apparition of bracts within the family must be considered as a case of systematic atavism, quite analogous to the re-appearance of the scapes in the acaulescent primrose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation] Reference

A blissful smile would gleam on his friendly moon of a face that floated atop his heavy torso like an acaulescent flower as he hesitated over the diphthongs and said to me: “Yob’ tvoyu mat’.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peace Meals] Reference