peltate

filaments short; anther connective enlarging into a peltate scale.

A widely cultivated tropical Asian plant(Colocasia esculenta) having broad, peltate leaves and a large, starchy, edible tuber.

The apical cell would develop into the head cells of peltate glandular hairs if the stalk cell kept meristematic and flat-shaped.

Flowers in thyrses; young leaves usually covered with stellate trichomes or peltate scalelike trichomes.

Trees or shrubs, evergreen or deciduous, monoecious or dioecious, aromatic, often with resinous, peltate glands.

leaf blade ovate to elliptic, venation primarily pinnate, base cordate, margin entire, not peltate.

indumentum of simple hairs and gland-tipped hairs or sessile peltate-stellate hairs with central cells.

stigma thick, peltate, apex concave, sometimes slightly oblique.

Plants without peltate scales; capsule conical-ovoid or cylindric.

Style filiform; stigma obconical, slightly cup-shaped to peltate.

leaf blade sparsely puberulent, base rounded, peltate.

A Eurasian plant(Umbilicus rupestris)having thick, peltate leaves and yellowish - green flowers.

stigma usually peltate or mushroom-shaped, large, entire or lobed at margin.

stigma peltate. Fruit clavate or obconical, 10-ribbed, with large, raised, wart like sticky glands.

caruncle peltate, yellow or light yellow, sessile.

indumentum of simple hairs or peltate scales.

Leaves distinctly peltate at base. Sepals less than 2. 8 cm wide. Petals shorter than or subequaling stamens, less than 8 mm.

stigma capitate to peltate.

Leaf blade base conspicuously peltate; petiole insertion 2--15 mm from leaf base.

stigma peltate, orbicular, large, ca. 7 mm in diam. , obviously exceeding anthers, 3(or 4)-lobed at margin. Fl. Sep.

Surface scales obvious, white to ferruginous, peltate, ca. 0. 2 mm in diam.

stigma peltate, 5-cleft, smooth.

5 (4) Leaf blade occasionally not peltate, without angular lobes; staminate tepals 4.

Style long; stigma inflated, discoid, peltate, or 2-4-lobed.

bracts orbicular, 0. 7-1 mm wide, peltate, abaxially glabrous, fascicled pubescent at insertion to rachis, stalk short.

stigma peltate to mushroom-shaped, 2--7 mm in diam. , fleshy. Fruit a berry, 1-seeded.

stigma peltate, apex concave, (3-)5-cleft.

4 (3) Leaf blade abaxially dirty gray with many rust-colored peltate hairs.

stigmas 1-12, punctiform to peltate or, when sessile, radiate, surface papillate or smooth.

Leaf blade consistently peltate, with 2- or 3-angular lobes; staminate tepals 2 or 4.

stigmas 2(or 3-5), or coherent to capitate or peltate.

Female flowers: sessile; calyx peltate, fleshy, free or basally connate, apex thick;

Male flowers: free, surrounded by peltate to clavate interfloral bracts;

petiole long, apex with 2 glands, insertion peltate;

Young leaves opposite, 4 or 5 pairs, peltate, shortly petiolate;

rachis glabrous; leaflets 7 or 9(or 11), peltate scales rare or absent;