Uniflorus
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Also known as: uniflora, uniflorum
A floral epithet indicating the plant or stem bears exactly one flower — a distinctive characteristic when compared to multi-flowered relatives. Single-flowered plants often have especially large or showy individual blooms. Appears as uniflorus (masculine), uniflora (feminine), or uniflorum (neuter).
Etymology
From Latin unus (one) + flos/floris (flower), meaning "one-flowered."
Example
“Trientalis europaea (chickweed wintergreen) bears a single, perfectly formed white flower on its slender stem, and Viola uniflora produces each solitary bloom with a delicate precision the single-flowered epithet honours.”