Stem Habits Flashcards
A plant with above ground stem include shrub, trees and herbs with aerial vegetative shoots and leaves
Caulescent
A plant that lacks an above ground stem, other than the inflorescence axis. Bear major photosynthetic leaves only at ground level, often in basal rosette; with only shoot becoming aerial, being an inflorescence that eventually dies off.
Acaulescent
Having the habit of a shrub, with numerous, woody, aerial trunks
Frutescent
Treelike appearance and size
Arborescent
Basally woody and herbaceous apically
Suffrutescent
Trailing or lying flat not rooting at the nodes
Prostate
Creeping or lying flat but rooting at the nodes
Repent
Basically prostrate but apically ascending
Decumbent
Multiple aerial but short stemmed shoots arise from the base, forming a much branched cushion
Cespitose