Dictionary

Word	Meaning
Flocculose	With small tufts of woolly hairs.
Floret	A small flower. Florets often occur in dense clusters.
Flower	A unit bearing one or more pistils and one or more stamens, or only pistils, called a pistillate or female flower, or only stamens, called a staminate or male flower. Structures such as colourful petals and nectar are typically used to attract pollinators.
Fluted	Longitudinal rounded grooves and ridges running up the trunk. They add structural strength to the trunk.
Foliate	With leaves.
Foliolate	With leaflets.
Follicle	A follicle is a dry fruit formed from one carpel (therefore called unilocular), that contains two or more seeds, usually having a suture on one side only, that will dehisce to release seeds.
Forb	A generalised term referring to herbaceous plants with no bare stems and less than 2 m tall. Forbs are usually annual.
Foveate	Pitted, or having pits or depressions. Foveolate means minutely pitted.
Fruit	A fruit is a mature ovary. It is a seed-bearing organ, of which there are many different designs.
Fugaceous	Falling off early.
Fulvous	A dull brownish-yellow or yellow-tawny colour.
Furcate	Branched, or forked, from a point.
Furfuraceous	Covered in small, soft scales that are bran-like.
Gall	An abnormal growth caused by disease, or infestation by insects.
Gamete	A reproductive cell of a plant that is unable to give rise to an individual plant until joined with another gamete to produce a zygote. A zygote is an egg cell fertilized by the union of a female gamete, being an egg or ovum, with a male gamete, or sperm.
Genus	A taxonomic category into which taxonomists have allocated related species.
Germination	The development of a seed into a seedling.
Glabrescent	Lacking hair or similar growtH
Glabrous	Lacking hair or similar growth, or tending to become hairless.
Gland	A cell or mass that secretes a fluid.
Glaucous	A pale grey or bluish-green appearance of a plant surface. Often applied to a waxy bloom that is easily rubbed off.
Globose	Spherical, or almost so.
Glomerate	Compactly clustered into a dense group or head.
Glomerule	A dense cluster of flowers formed by condensation of a cyme.
Glutinous	Covered with a sticky layer.
Gymnosperms	A group of seed-bearing plants in which the seed is 'naked', or not enclosed within an ovary during pollination. Rather, the seed is protected by a woody cone. Gymnosperms do not bear flowers, but they produce male and female reproductive cells in separate male and female cones. In contrast, angiosperms are flowering plants.
Gynobasic	A style that appears to grow from the base of the ovary, and not from the top.
Gynoecium	The female structure of a flower. See pistil.
Gynophore	A stalk elevating the female parts of a flower above the branching point of the petals and stamens. See also androgynophore.