With veins or lobes radiating from a common center. Panicle. A compound or branched raceme. Paniculate. Borne in a panicle. Parted. Divided by sinuses which extend nearly to the midrib. Perfect. Having stamens and pistils in the same flower. Persistent. Remaining attached. Petiolate. Having petioles, not sessile. Petiole. The stalk of a leaf. Petiolulate. Having petiolules. Petiolule. The stalk of a leaflet in a compound leaf. Pinnate. Descriptive of compound leaves with the leaflets arranged on opposite sides along a common rachis. Also used to describe leaf venation. Pistil. The seed-bearing organ of the flower. Pistillate. Provided with pistils; usually descriptive of unisexual flowers. Polygamous. Bearing perfect and unisexual flowers on the same plant. Polymorphic. Having two or more forms. Pubescent. Covered with fine, soft, short hairs. Pyriform. Pear-shaped. Raceme. An inflorescence consisting of a central rachis bearing a number of flowers with stalks of nearly equal length. Rachis. The axis of a compound leaf or inflorescence. Receptacle. The portion of the floral axis upon which the flowers are borne. Reticulate. Forming a network. Rhombic. Somewhat diamond-shaped. Rib. A prominent vein. Samara. An indehiscent winged fruit. Scurfy. Covered with small scales. Seed. A ripened ovule. Serrate. With sharp teeth pointing forward. Sessile. Without a stalk of any kind. Simple. Of one piece; not compound. Sinuate. Deeply or strongly undulate or wavy. Sinus. A recess, cleft, or gap between two lobes. Spatulate. Spatula-shaped. Spike. An inflorescence consisting of a central rachis bearing a number of stalkless flowers. Stamen. Pollen-bearing organ of the flower. Staminate. Bearing stamens. Stellate. Star-shaped. Stipule. A leafy appendage attached to the twig at the base of a petiole; usually in pairs, one on each side, often shedding early. Striate. With fine grooves, ridges, or lines of color. Suture. Line of dehiscence. Subglobose. Globe shaped, but slightly flattened. Subsessile. Almost stalkless. Tomentose. Coated with short, matted woolly hair. Truncate. Having a blunt tip or end, appearing as if abruptly cut off transversely. Undulate. Wavy. Unisexual. Having stamens and pistils in separate flowers. Valvate. Opening by valves as in a capsule or some leaf buds; meeting at the edges without overlapping. Whorl. Circular arrangement of appendages at a node. Woolly. Clothed with long, matted hairs. Footnotes [1]For the purposes of this paper, pine sites are defined as forested uplands, excluding those growing cove-type hardwoods, that are supporting southern pine or show evidence, such as stumps, of its former occurrence.