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hernesheir commented on the word emprosthrodromous
Describing a flower where the genetic spiral on its shortest way from bract to outer perianth segments passes outside the flower, farthest from the axis.
This term would benefit from a diagram. The term appears in the additions section of Benjamin Daydon Jackson's Glossary of Botanic Terms, p. 307, and in Ernst Artschwager and Edwina Maria Smiley's Dictionary of Botanical Equivalents, p. 126, where it is paired with the German term vornumläufig.
February 19, 2011