spicately

comparative more spicately · superlative most spicately

1. biologyHaving the form of a spike, or ear; arranged in a spike or spikes.

   They consist of spicately or paniculately arranged glomerules of flowers.

   2024 June 7, Wikipedia contributors, “Chenopodium”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation

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   Leaves dilated, verticillate or alternate flowers; racemose or spicately racemose.

   1839, Robert Sweet, F.L.S., edited by George Don, F.L.S., SWEET'S HORTUS BRITANNICUS; OR, A CATALOGUE OF ALL THE PLANTS INDIGENOUS OR CULTIVATED IN THE GARDENS OF GREAT BRITAIN, ARRANGED ACCORDING TO THE NATURAL SYSTEM, WITH THE GENERIC AND SPECIFIC NAMES ENGLISH NAMES ACCENTUATION DERIVATION OF GENERIC NAMES NATIVE COUNTRY YEAR OF INTRODUCTION TIME OF FLOWERING COLOUR OF FLOWERS MODE OF GROWTH DURATION REFERENCES TO THE BEST FIGURES THE MOST USEFUL SYNONYMES THE LINNEAN CLASS AND ORDER TO WHICH EACH GENUS BELONGS, Third edition, London: James Ridgeway, page 513

   The arrangement of individual inflorescence units is highly variable in Nivenia and Aristea but the ancestral condition is most likely racemose (Goldblatt, 1993a,b) with lateral inflorescences borne on short lateral branches (sessile lateral branches, thus spicately arranged, are considered homologous)

   2004 January, Goldblatt, Peter, Le Thomas, Annick, Suárez-Cervera, Maria, “Phylogeny of the Afro-Madagascan Aristea (Iridaceae) revisited in the light of new data on pollen morphology.”, in Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, volume 144, number 1, Appendix (section 16), page 67