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Sessility (botany)
Leaves or flowers that grow directly from the stem or peduncle of a plant / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In botany, sessility (meaning "sitting", in the sense of "resting on the surface") is a characteristic of plant organs such as flowers or leaves that have no stalk.[1][2] Plant parts without stalks can be described as apetiolate. They can also be described as subsessile, that is, not completely sessile.[3]
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A sessile flower is one that lacks a pedicel (flower stalk). A flower that is not sessile is pedicellate. For example, the genus Trillium is partitioned into multiple subgenera, the sessile-flowered trilliums (Trillium subgen. Sessilia) and the pedicellate-flowered trilliums.
The term "sessility" is also used in mycology to describe a fungal fruit body that is attached to or seated directly on the surface of the substrate, lacking a supporting stipe or pedicel.[4]