Flexuosus
/flek-syoo-OH-sus/🏷️ Taxonomy●● Intermediate
Also known as: flexuosa, flexuosum
A morphological epithet describing a stem or rachis that bends alternately in slightly different directions — creating a gentle zigzag or sinuously flexed line. Appears as flexuosus (masculine), flexuosa (feminine), or flexuosum (neuter).
Etymology
From Latin flexuosus, meaning "full of bends," from flexus (a bending), from flectere (to bend).
Example
“Luzula flexuosa and Poa flexuosa both have the gently zigzag, sinuously bent stems the epithet describes — a natural, unbotanically-precise growth pattern.”