A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

Scape (Eng.noun), “a long naked, or nearly naked, peduncle, which rises up from the crown of a root. Sometimes applied to the stipe of Fungals” (Lindley); “1. A leafless floral axis or peduncle arising from the ground, as in Cyclamen; 2. The stipe of Fungi” (Jackson); “a naked flowering stem rising from the ground” (Fernald 1950): scapus,-i (s.m.II), abl. sg. scapo, nom. pl. scapi, acc. pl. scapos, dat. & abl. pl. scapis [> L. scapus,-i (s.m.II), anything that supports, as the stalk of plants; L. “a stem” (Jackson)];

NOTE: when the scape has leaves, these are all basal (radicalis,-e (adj.B).

- scapus robustus viridis glaber sursum angulatus, racemo laxo multifloro terminatus, scape stout green glabrous angled above, by a loose many-flowered raceme terminated (Stearn).

- scapus erectus, rectus vel flexuosus, scape upright, straight or flexuous.

- paracladia brevia scapo solitario gerentia, paraclades short, bearing a solitary scape.

- scapi nudi v. foliosi (B&H), scapes naked or leafy.

- hеrbаe, scapigera, foliis integris, scapis aphyllis v. foliosis (B&H), herbs, scape-bearing, with the scapes leafless or leafy.

- [Hepatica] scapi plurimi radicales 1-flori. (DeCandolle), most scapes basal, 1-flowered.

- scapi 7-10-pollic. (DeCandolle), scapes 7-10-inches (pollicares).

- petiolis scapisque subpilosis (DeCandolle), with the petioles and scapes somewhat pilose.

- [Plantago major] scapus teres, non striatus, sonspersus villis adpressis” Desf.), the scape rounded-cylindric, not striate, scattered with appressed villous hairs.

Perhaps as the “culm” in graminoid plants:

- [Panicum] scapus infra spicam parum villosus; pedicelli omnes uniflori (Linn.), the scape below the spike somewhat villous; all the pediceles uniflorous.

hyacinthinus,-a,-um (adj.A): [“rarely”: Stearn) “hyacinth-like in habit, a scape bearing spicate flowers” (Jackson).

scapeless, lacking a scape: exscapus,-a,-um (adj.A).

Silene acaulis var. exscapa.