Scaposa
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Also known as: scaposus, scaposum
A morphological epithet indicating the plant bears a scape — a leafless flower stem that arises directly from the base or rootstock, carrying the flowers up without any foliage on the stem itself. Scapose plants have all their leaves in a basal rosette. Appears as scaposa (feminine); scaposus (masculine) or scaposum (neuter).
Etymology
From Latin scapus (shaft, stem, scape) + -osus (having, full of), meaning "having a scape."
Example
“Primula scaposa and various Taraxacum (dandelion) relatives carry their flowers on the leafless scapes the epithet describes — naked stems rising from ground-level rosettes with no foliage to interrupt the clean line to the flower.”