racemose
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General term for any loose and irregular flower-cluster, commonly of the racemose type, with pedicellate flowers.
From Handbook of the Trees of New England by Lorin Low Dame
Flowers.—White; two lines across; in terminal racemose panicles.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Flowers axillary, racemose, with a scale at the base of the peduncle, some hermaphrodite and others lacking pistils.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
Funkia.—Pretty liliaceous plants, with simple conspicuously longitudinal-ribbed leaves, the racemose flowers funnel-shaped and deflexed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
Thus we may have a group of racemes, arranged in a racemose manner on a common axis, forming a raceme of racemes or compound raceme, as in Astilbe.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
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