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conduplicate

[kən′düp·lə·kət]
(botany)
Folded lengthwise and in half with the upper faces together, applied to leaves and petals in the bud.
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Pseudobulbs abbreviate, 1-leaved, ovoid, compressed, 5 cm long, 6 mm thick; covered at base by 2-3 triangular, acute, shortly apiculate, conduplicate, non-foliose, carinate sheaths, disposed in fan-like arrangement, turning papyraceous with age, 9-32 mm long.
3 mm long, base obtuse, apex obtuse and minutely apiculate, fixed at 1/3 of its length above the base; stigma conduplicate, blades ca.
22 x 2 mm appendages adnate to the petals for 18-19 mm, (the distal margins free, the proximal margins adnate to petals for 18-19 mm), the free lobes ovate, 3-4 mm long, apex slightly recurved; stamens completely exposed by the recurved petals at anthesis, suberect; filaments terete, white, the antesepalous ones free, the antepetalous ones shortly adnate to the petals; anthers linear, 7-8 mm long, base sagittate, apex obtuse, fixed near the base, shorter than the petals; pollen narrowly ellipsoid, sulcate, exine broadly reticulate, lumina rounded, muri narrowed; style exceeding the petals, white; stigma conduplicate, blades subspreading, densely papillose, white, ca.
24 mm long, adnate to the petals for 16-17 mm, the antesepalous ones 25-26 mm long, free; anthers subellipsoid to sublinear, 3.5-4 mm long, slightly laterally complanate, base obtuse and apex obtuse and inconspicuously and finely apiculate, dorsifixed at the middle; pollen subellipsoid, sulcate, the exine at the middle reticulate with subrounded lumina, muri narrowed, exine near the poles perforate; stigma weakly conduplicate, ca.
12 mm; stamens immature; filaments terete, white, free; anthers linear, 9-10 mm long, base sagittate, apex obtuse, fixed near the base; pollen ellipsoid, sulcate, exine reticulate, lumina polygonal, muri distinctly narrowed; style about equaling the petals in immature state, white; stigma conduplicate, erect, densely papillose, white, blades ca.
14 mm long, base sagittate, apex obtuse, fixed near the base; pollen broadly ellipsoid, sulcate, exine reticulate, lumina rounded, muri narrowed to slightly thickened; style distinctly exceeding the petals, white; stigma conduplicate, erect, densely papilose, white, blades ca.
5 mm long, slightly laterally complanate, the base obtuse, apex obtuse and inconspicuously and finely apiculate, dorsifixed at the middle; pollen subelliptic, sulcate, exine broadly reticulate at the middle with polygonal lumina, muri narrowed, near the poles the exine is microreticulate to perforate, muri thickened; stigma weakly conduplicate, ca.
16 mm long, base sagittate, apex obtuse, fixed near the base; pollen ellipsoidal, sulcate, exine reticulate, lumina rounded, muri narrowed; style distinctly exceeding the petals, white; stigma conduplicate, spreading-contorted, densely papilose, white, blades ca.
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