Meanings
- not comparablebiologyGrowing out of older branches rather than from the main stem.
Secondary less rigid, paler brown, ascending, simple or dichotomous, innovant in older plants.
1894, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, Handbook of British Hepaticae, page 1582 more examples
These all agree with typical Thysananthus in habit, rooting flagella, lingulate leaves, repeatedly and closely innovant inflorescence, and trigonous perianths; and only differ in the entire underleaves and perianths.
1884, Transactions and Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, Volume 15, page 71Stems irregularly pinnate, alternate, 2 to 3 cells wide, innovant branch arising from base of perianth, sometimes long and again innovant, rarely two innovant branches.
1918, William Henry Pearson, “Notes on a Collection of Hepatics from the Cameroons, West Coast of Africa”, in Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society, page 4
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