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Sentence Examples
| Terminal buds bear imbricate, scaly buds except in the bitternut hickory which has valvate or foliate buds. |
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| The perianth is commonly uniseriate, consisting of 3-5 valvate, basally connate sepals, but sometimes an equal number of petals are also present. |
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| The calyx and corolla are both valvate in bud, contrasting with the usual condition in both of the other subfamilies. |
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| The flowers display valvate, distinct, or connate sepals and petals. |
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| Iteaceae have spirally arranged serrate leaves, rather small flowers with valvate petals in racemose or paniculate clusters, and capsular fruits whose two carpels remain attached by the stigma. |
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| A typical palm flower is small, with 3 imbricate sepals, 3 valvate petals, six stamens or staminodes, and 3 uniovulate carpels or a trifid pistillode. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| Calyx 5-parted, valvate in the staminate flowers, imbricate in the pistillate. |
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| From Uvaria the Cananga differs in its valvate petals, and from Unona in the arrangement of the seeds in two rows. |
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| Sepals 4, or rarely more, colored, the valvate margins turned inward in the bud. |
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| Petals either imbricated in the bud or valvate with the point inflexed. |
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| Corolla pentamerous, gamopetalous and caducous, with valvate aestivation, presumably rotate and reflexed. |
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| Corolla 4-parted, rarely 3-parted, wheel-shaped, valvate in the bud. |
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