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revolute

[rev-uh-loot] / ˈrɛv əˌlut /


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Corolla.—Tubular; six lines to an inch long; bilabiate; the lips strongly revolute; the upper four-lobed, the lower entire.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons

Fruit fleshy or membranous, 1–5-celled, the placentæ often produced to the axis and revolute.

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

Corolla ovate and urn-shaped, with a short revolute 5-toothed limb.

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

Perianth.—Broadly funnel-form, with six deciduous segments; at length revolute to the stem.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons

Heads many-flowered; flowers all tubular and perfect, with large revolute corolla-lobes.

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




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