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caducous

[′kad·ə·kəs]
(botany)
Lasting on a plant only a short time before falling off.
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1 mm long, caducous on the old branches, intense on the young branches, distributed on the pulvinus, margin with leaflets, sepals and legumes.
The genus Senna Mill. (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae) in a fragment of the Ecological Station Raso da Catarina, Bahia, Brazil/O genero Senna Mill. (Leguminosae: Caesalpinioideae) em um fragmento da Estacao Ecologica Raso da Catarina, Bahia, Brasil
During the GTs final developmental stages, the vacuoles in some of the glandular cells increase in size and their protoplasts darkens; these changes are soon seen in neighboring cells, culminating in the cessation of synthesis activities and in GTs death that are caducous.
Glandular trichomes in Connarus suberosus (Connaraceae): distribution, structural organization and probable functions
Leaves odd pinnate (-trifoliolate), petioled; leaflets paired, alternate, or irregularly arranged, entire; stipules free, persistent or caducous.
The genus Indigofera (Fabaceae) in Alabama
Leaves pinnate, caducous or marcescent, sheath, petiole and rachis spiny and covered with an appressed hairy-scaly indument, blade irregularly divided in multifold or single and multifold segments intermixed, with a white indument abaxially, plication reduplicate.
El genero Hexopetion Burret (Arecaceae)
Caducous stipules, not seen; leaf blade ovate to elliptic, adaxial surface glabrous, abaxial surface glabrous throughout domatia when present, of pouch to pit type.
Morphoanatomical studies of Uncaria tomentosa and Uncaria guianensis bark and leaves
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