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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

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

  Chapter 7

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

  Chapter 7

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

  Chapter 10

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

  Chapter 9

• “There are usually 12-15 pairs of opposite stalkless pinnules (leaflets), each 12-15 cm long 5-10 mm broad, with the middle pairs longest.”

  Chapter 42

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