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appressed

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appressed [ə′prest]
(biology)
Pressed close to or lying flat against something.


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Lamina tissue glabrous between the veins abaxially (sometimes with appressed reddish uniseriate scales, but no hairs) 12.
LYCOPODIACEA Mirbel Plants terrestrial, on rocks or epiphytic; rhizomes normally present, erect stems simple or branched; leaves appressed to ascending or spreading; sporangia in strobili.
5 cm wide, nearly equal, often with an enlarged base, hollow, tough and fibrous; surface dry, light brown below the annulus due to cotton-scaly appressed hairs, white above the annulus.
 
 
 
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