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obconic
/ ɒbˈkɒnɪk /
adjective
- botany (of a fruit or similar part) shaped like a cone and attached at the pointed end
Example Sentences
Involucral leaves 2–6, the outer smaller, the inner variously cut; perianth small, obconic or campanulate, 3-angled and 3-lobed only at the apex, the lobes usually spinose.
Prostrate, horizontally branched, copiously rooting; leaves imbricate, horizontal, oval, entire or slightly repand; underleaves lanceolate; perianth terminal, broadly obconic, the mouth compressed, repand-crenulate.
Involucres sessile, obconic or pyriform, perforated at the apex, continuous with the thallus at base.
Stems 6–10´´ long; leaves retuse, entire or irregularly indented; perianth obconic, dentate; elaters short and thick; spores brown, depressed-globose-tetrahedral, 40 µ broad, crested, the slender crests pellucid, rarely becoming confluent.—On damp ground.
Perigynium obconic or obovoid, squarrose in exceedingly dense short spikes.—Sp.
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