flower fascicle
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0025323
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- related: bundle
- exact: 花束 (Japanese)
- exact: fascículo floral (Spanish)
- exact: floral fascicle
- Definition
- A reproductive shoot system that is a second or higher order inflorescence in which the second or higher order inflorescence branch bears two or more flowers but is not elongated. [source: PMID:12644644]
- Comment
- A fascicle appears to be a cluster of flowers in an axil of a single bract of the main inflorescence. Fascicles are common in some sections of the Fabaceae, where they are second order inflorescences.
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