Word that tripped the runner-up: distichous (meaning arranged in two vertical rows, and misspelled distychous). Orthographophile Capehart’s winning word, clinching the $1,000 prize: smaragdine ...

Plant epiphyte, 5.0-12.5 cm tall in flowering; roots present, rigid; stem elongated. Leaves 7-10, distichous, slightly curved; sheath 5.5-10 × 3-5 mm, elliptic-ovate, distinct; blade 4-8 × 0.4-0.5 cm, ...

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B. Strict consensus cladogram obtained from parsimony analysis. Trees or shrubs, with distichous arrangement of both leaves and lateral branches; indumentum of lepidote (sometimes stellate) hairs; ...

It matches precisely the distichous fossil foliage form of Retrophyllum spiralifolium, which was described based on a large set of data - a suite of 82 specimens collected from both Laguna del Hunco ...

Top archaeological discoveries of 2019. A fossilised leafy branch from the early Eocene in Patagonia, discovered in 1941 and remained the oldest bamboo fossil ever since belonging to the ancient ...

It matches precisely the distichous fossil foliage form of Retrophyllum spiralifolium, which was described based on a large set of data -- a suite of 82 specimens collected from both Laguna del ...

The bluer, the weaker the signal.CreditCredit...By Takaaki Yonekura Bamboo leaves are directly opposite each other, or “distichous,” while the spiral aloe plant forms a swirl that follows the ...

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We weren’t entirely sure that this was Tahina spectabilis – but it did not match any other known genus either, with rounded leaflets tips, relatively short petioles, and lacking the usual striking ...