racemosa
/ras-em-OH-suh/🏷️ Taxonomy● Basic
A floral arrangement epithet marking flowers borne along an elongated, unbranched axis, each on its own short stalk, opening from the base upward. This is the feminine form, paired with feminine genus names. Appears as racemosus (masculine), racemosa (feminine), or racemosum (neuter).
Etymology
From Latin racemosus, meaning "full of clusters," from racemus (a cluster of grapes).
Example
“Actaea racemosa (black cohosh) lifts its white flowers on tall unbranched spires, the arrangement the epithet records.”