stalkless

Therefore, the ecoregion boasts the record for a plant growing at the highest elevation in the world: Arenaria bryophylla, a small, dense, tufted cushion-forming plant with small, stalkless flowers, was recorded at an astonishing 6,180 m by A.F. R. Wollaston.

Eastern Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows 2008

Perhaps because of that resemblance, scientists had always assumed that sea lilies stayed rooted instead of moving around like their stalkless relatives, the feather stars.

News and Science 2005

The nearer ground was strewn with glaciated boulders and supported nothing but a stunted Alpine vegetation of compact clustering stems and stalkless flowers.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

On the rocks rest stalkless mushrooms, gills uppermost, which blossom as pom-pom chrysanthemums; rough nodules, boat — and canoe-shaped dishes of coral.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

There was no lawn, but instead a shrubbery of native trees and bushes — gold mohur trees like vast umbrellas of blood-red bloom, frangipanis with creamy, stalkless flowers, purple bougainvillea, scarlet hibiscus and the pink

Burmese Days 2002

LEAVES: Broadly elliptic, glossy green, opposite, shortly stalked or stalkless.

Chapter 7 1999

LEAVES: Almost stalkless, divided into two almost round leaflets.

Chapter 7 1999

The stalkless leaflets are arranged in pairs numbering from 12 to 32 (Little and Wadsworth 1989).!

Chapter 8 1996

The stalkless leaflets are arranged in pairs numbering from 12 to 32 (Little and Wadsworth 1989).!

Chapter 10 1996

The fruit is fleshy, stalkless, ovoid or nearly spherical, 5 - 6 millimeters in length and purple when mature.

Chapter 9 1993