thyrse
Noun
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Noun
thyrse (plural thyrses)
- (botany) A type of inflorescence; a compact panicle having an obscured main axis and cymose subaxes.
- 1804, Benjamin Smith Barton, Elements of Botany, page 143 ↗,
- The Thyrsus *, or Thyrse, is a mode of inflorescence very nearly allied to the panicle, being, in fact, a panicle contracted into an ovate, or egg-shaped form. In the thyrse, the middle footstalks, which are longer, extend horizontally, whilst the upper and lower oes are shorter, and rise up vertically.
- 1840, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Boughton Kingdon (translator), Vegetable Organography, Volume II, page 24 ↗,
- The example of the thyrse of Eugenia leads us to understand several inflorescences which resemble also racemes or panicles; such are the thyrses of the Lilac.
- 1998, D. W. Stevenson, M. Colella, B. Boom, Rapateaceae, Klaus Kubitzki, H. Huber (editors), The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, Volume IV: Flowering Plants, Monocotyledons: Alismatanae and Commelinanae (except Gramineae), page 417 ↗,
- The number of spikelets is variable, and some genera have thyrses with 70 spikelets (Saxofridericia, Spathanthus) or only 1-3 spikelets per inflorescence (Stegolepsis, Monotrema).
- 1804, Benjamin Smith Barton, Elements of Botany, page 143 ↗,
- (archaic) A thyrsus (staff with conical ornament).
- French: thyrse
- German: Thyrsus
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