spicatum
/spy-KAH-tum/🏷️ Taxonomy● Basic
Also known as: spicatus, spicata
A floral arrangement epithet describing flowers borne in a spike, a dense elongated cluster whose individual flowers are stalkless on the main axis, and the neuter form used where the genus is neuter. A spike differs from a raceme, whose flowers are stalked. Appears as spicatus (masculine), spicata (feminine), or spicatum (neuter).
Etymology
From Latin spicatus, meaning "provided with spikes," from spica (a spike or ear of grain).
Example
“Acer spicatum (mountain maple) and Myriophyllum spicatum (Eurasian watermilfoil) take the neuter ending their genera require.”