racemosum
/ras-em-OH-sum/🏷️ Taxonomy● Basic
A floral arrangement epithet describing an inflorescence in which stalked flowers are set along a single unbranched axis, giving a slender, tapering flower spire. This is the neuter form, paired with neuter 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
“Maianthemum racemosum (false Solomon's seal) ends its arching stems in a plume of small flowers borne along one axis.”