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decurrent

[di′kər·ənt]

(botany)

Running downward, especially of a leaf base extended past its insertion in the form of a winged expansion.

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decurrens vary at their bases, from narrowly attenuate to abruptly cuneate, but all are decurrent basiscopically (Figures 1 A-C).

Confirmacion de una disyuncion a escala continental del helecho Campyloneurum decurrens (Polypodiaceae)

Diagnosis: Basidiomata clitocyboid, pileus 13-30 mm diam., infundibuliform to plano-convex, white to pastel grey, lamellae decurrent, stipe cylindrical, with mycelial pad and rhizomorphs, basidiospores 4-5 x 3-4.3 [mu]m, globose to subglobose, smooth to slightly angled in polar view, cystidia absent, pileipellis a transition between trichocutis and a trichoderm, clamp connection absent.

NEW SPECIES, NEW COMBINATION, AND NOTES ON CLITOCELLA AND RHODOCYBE (ENTOLOMATACEAE) FROM PARANA STATE, BRAZIL

Dorsal leaf bases very longly decurrent, concealing the stem ...

El genero Plagiochila (Marchantiophyta) en Colombia

Notogastral cristae with a pair of decurrent line .....................

Two New Species and a New Record of Oppioid Mites (Acari: Oribatida) from Turkey

It will take time to fully understand the long-term impacts these sprawling infernos will have on everything from the threatened Apache trout (Oncorhynchus apache) to the endangered Houston toad (Bufo houstonensis), and what the chaotic flooding throughout the heart of the country will mean for species like the threatened decurrent false aster (Boltonia decurrens) to the endangered interior least tern (Sterna antillarum).

Conservation in the extremes

1 mm long, free, glabrous, white except for the red apex, the adaxial ones carinate with keels decurrent on the ovary, the abaxial one obtusely if at all carinate; petals narrowly lanceolate, apex acuminate to acute, suberect at anthesis, 18-25 x 4 mm, free, purple, bearing 2 irregularly digitate-lacerate appendages 6-8 mm above the base.

Re-establishing Hohenbergia capitata

The side shoot departs upwards at an angle of about 20[degrees] with a decurrent upper surface.

Leafy branches of Bothrodendron punctatum from the Westphalian D (Asturian) of Nova Scotia, Canada

Spasticity is characterized by hypertonia that involves decurrent velocity-dependence with hypersensitivity of the stretching reflex, and possessing selectivity of anti-gravitational muscles (predominant in flexors of superior limbs and extensors of inferior limbs) (4).

Effect of resisted exercise on muscular strength, spasticity and functionality in chronic hemiparetic subjects: a systematic review

Basiscopic margin decurrent and acroscopic margin rounded.

A fern-bennettitalean floral assemblage in Tithonian-Berriasian travertine deposits (Aguilar Formation, Burgos-Palencia, N Spain) and its palaeoclimatic and vegetational implications/Una asociacion floristica de helechos-bennettitales en acumulaciones travertinicas del Titonico-Berriasiense (Formacion Aguilar, Burgos-Palencia, Espana) y sus implicaciones paleoclimaticas y vegetacionales

Lamellae white to slightly cream, small depressed or slightly decurrent. Stipe 3-8 cm, white, usually ventricose when young, later cylindric.

Commercial cultivation of Lyophyllum shimeji

Rhizomes or stems prostrate, with erect, regularly branching stems; leaves of prostrate stems appressed to ascending, linear to narrowly lanceolate, 1.8-4.6 mm long, leaves of erect stems appressed with decurrent bases, subulate, 1.8-3.5 mm long, strobili 2-4 per upright shoot, 1.4-4.0 cm long.

Pteridophytes of southeast Alabama: Dichotomous keys, illustrations and distribution maps

The leaf apices are abruptly acute to gradually acuminate and the leaf base has neither auricular nor decurrent development.