corymb


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flat-topped or convex inflorescence in which the individual flower stalks grow upward from various points on the main stem to approximately the same height

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- Leaves and corymb initially pubescent; stamens 25-30 and styles 3-5.......................................1.
Heteropterys tiinae differs from all other species of Heteropterys by the combination of small glabrous laminas bearing large glands abaxially, epipetiolar stipules, and umbels or corymbs of 4-6 flowers with small greenish petals borne on well-developed peduncles.
Rosa woodsii has five to nine elliptical-obovate leaflets with flowers mostly corymbed about 3 cm across varying in colour from pink to white.
Description: Clustered florets that form a convex corymb or elongated raceme inflorescence.
Michaux says that its ordinary height "is fifteen or eighteen feet, but it is sometimes found twenty-five or thirty feet high," and that the large ones "exactly resemble the common apple-tree." "The flowers are white mingled with rose color, and are collected in corymbs." They are remarkable for their delicious odor.
Inflorescence type: (0) panicle or compound spike; (1) spike or raceme; (2) dense racemose head; (3) corymb; (4) solitary flower; (5) cyme.
corymb. A rounded or flat-topped inflorescence of racemose type in which the lower (outer) flower stalks (pedicels) are longer than the upper (inner) ones so that all the flowers are at about the same level.
I have seen the small mulleins in the fields for a day or two as big as a ninepence; rattlesnake grass is ripe; a stalk of purple eupatorium, eight feet, eight inches high, with a large convex corymb (hemispherical) of many stories, fourteen inches wide, and the width of the plant, from tip of leaf to tip of leaf, two feet, the diameter of its stalk one inch at the ground.
Corymb A flat-topped to rounded inflorescence with pedicels attached at alternating points to the peduncle; outer flowers opening first.
In spring, it boasts creamy white flower clusters, called "corymbs," that attract a host of pollinators, including the hummingbird moth and red admiral butterfly.
The flowers are pink, large, generally fragrant, and arranged in large terminal corymbs. The corolla is in saucer, with five petals welded by their base.
By May, there are attractive corymbs of creamy white flowers that give way eventually to big bunches of the most luscious of red berries, almost see-through like redcurrants.
The flowers present white to yellowish-white color, they are small, arranged in large terminal corymbs summits morphologically monoclinic or tetramer pentamerous, and actinomorphic (NUNES et al., 2007).