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cespitose

[ses-pi-tohs] / ˈsɛs pɪˌtoʊs /
ADJECTIVE
tufted
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I have never seen it cespitose, never more than two specimens growing near each other.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by George Francis Atkinson

Differs from the variety of n. 69 chiefly in its more cespitose habit, its densely glaucous-blue covering, very slender culm, and very long and filiform peduncles.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

The cespitose masses are often a foot broad.

From North American Species of Cactus by John Merle Coulter

Stems short, cespitose, creeping or ascending, subsimple, with numerous offshoots; leaf-lobes broadly ovate, entire, mostly obtuse and apiculate; involucral leaves sometimes denticulate; perianth small, subcuneate, entire.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

The stem is subequal, cespitose, reticulate to the base, pulverulent below.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard


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