just a buch of terms

Sessile

Lacking a leaf stem connecting the leaf to the main stem.

Areoles

Specialized short shoots bearing spines and glochids.

Glochids

A barbed hair found on cacti.

Cactus stem modification

The green, fleshy photosynthetic stem; most cacti lack leaves.

Tubercles

Structures connecting the areoles to the photosynthetic stem.

Halophytes

Plants that thrive in salty areas.

Glomerules

Dense, tiny clusters of flowers.

Ocrea

Papery sheath surrounding the leaf stem base like a modified stipule.

Bistort

Twisted twice.

Bifid

Deeply two-clefted or two-lobed.

Caudex

The woody base of a perennial herb.

Ciliate

Having a fringe of hairs on the leaf margin.

Decumbent

Lying on the ground with the flowering branches ascending.

Urceolate

Urn-shaped.

Prostrate

Lying flat or low to the ground.

Scape

A flowering stem without leaves.

Salveform

A corolla with a slender tube and abruptly flattened, expanded limb.

Bilabiate

Two-lobed or two-lipped.

Scutellum

A helmet-like structure for the upper lip flower petal.

Holoparasitic

Fully parasitic plants that lack chlorophyll.

Campanulate

Bell-shaped flowers.