cauliflory
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[edit]Noun
[edit]cauliflory (uncountable)
- The quality of being cauliflorous.
- 1990, Shirley Ann Owens, The Development of Cauliflory in Cercis Canadensis (Fabaceae):
- Stebbins (1974) reported that cauliflory is present in species belonging to most of the larger tropical families and that these species, derived from ancestors living in a more open environment, secondarily entered the rain forest.