Self-Education: The "forms" part I

Forms from calflora.net "Botantical Terms" page.

• Annular: in the form of a ring
• Calathiform: basket- or cup-shaped
• Concolor: of uniform color
• Coroniform: crown-shaped
• Cruciform: cross-shaped
• Cyathiform: cup-shaped
• Dimorphic: having two forms
• Disciform: having a flowering head that contains both filiform and disk flowers, referring to members of the Asteraceae
• Ensiform: sword-shaped, as applied to a leaf
• Filiform: (1) threadlike; (2) a type of flower in the Asteraceae which is pistillate and has a very slender, tubular corolla
• Funnelform: gradually widening upwards, as in the flowers of morning glory
• Fusiform: spindle-shaped, thickest in the middle and drawn out at both ends
• Heteromorphic: of one or more kind or form
• Homomorphic: all of the same kind or form
• Junciform: rush-like in appearance
• Napiform: turnip-shaped
• Nascent: in the process of being formed
• Netted: same as reticulated, in the form or pattern of a network
• Pyriform: pear-shaped
• Reniform: kidney-shaped or rounded with a notch at the base
• Rostrate: having a beak or beak-like form
• Salverform: with a slender tube abruptly expanded into a rotate limb
• Scalariform: ladder-like
• Umbellulate: in the form of or having the appearance of an umbel
• Uncinate: hooked near the apex or having the form of a hook
• Zygomorphic: with inequality in the size or form of similar parts, specifically bilaterally symmetric and capable of being bisected into equal mirror-image halves along one plane only