pedicel
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A narrowing called the articulation separates the floral axis from the lower pedicel, which attached the flower to a stem.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Sterile flowers numerous and lining the base of the involucre, each from the axil of a little bract, and consisting merely of a single stamen jointed on a pedicel like the filament; anther-cells globular, separate.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
The rudimentary ramus is only one seventh part longer than the pedicel which supports both it and the normal ramus.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
Caudal Appendages, multi-articulate: in a medium-sized specimen, each contained eight segments, which reached half-way up the upper segment of the pedicel of the sixth cirrus.
From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Charles Darwin
Subtended, supported or surrounded; as a pedicel by a bract, or a flower-cluster by an involucre.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
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