Adscendens
/ad-SEN-denz/🏷️ Taxonomy●● Intermediate
A growth habit epithet describing a plant whose stems begin lying along the ground but curve upward toward the light. Also spelled ascendens. Appears as adscendens (both genders).
Etymology
From Latin adscendens, present participle of adscendere (to ascend), from ad- + scandere (to climb).
Example
“Medicago adscendens has the characteristic decumbent-then-upward stems — beginning prostrate and curving skyward.”