A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

branching (adj.): ramificans,-antis (part.B), q.v.;

- ramificans perfecte laterali-intercalariter, branching perfectly lateral-intercalary.

- ramificans perfecte per innovationes, branching completely by innovations.

- ramificans saepissime laterali- atque ventrali-intercalariter, branching nearly always lateral- and ventral-intercalary.

- haec species ordinate pinnatim ramificante differt, this species differs by its regular pinnate branching (= by branching regularly pinnately).

- determinatim ramificanti, by branching in a definite (= determinate) manner.

Branching (pattern), the branch-system; the place where a branch arises;: ramificatio,-onis (s.f.III), abl. sg. ramificatione, q.v.; cf. ventral-intercalary;

- ambitus totius systematis ramificationis, outline of the whole system of branching (Stearn).

- Lichen arboreus elegantissimus, bronchiarum ramificationes referens (Dill.), a tree-like Lichen most elegant, resembling the branching of the bronchial tubes.” [bronchia,-orum (pl.n.II), abl.pl. bronchiis: “= Gk. bronchia, the bronchial tubes”].

- sed ramificatione irregulari satis distinctum, but by its irregular branching sufficiently distinct.

- ramificatio districtim ventraliter intercalaris, branching strictly ventral intercalary.

- ramificatio infravaginalis, the branching infravaginal.

- ramificatio adventitia (adj.A), abl. sg. ramificatione adventitia, adventive or adventitious branching.

- ramis adventitiis, with branches adventive.

- initium ramificationis, the beginning of branching.

- frondes angustiores hoc modo ramificationis, Rosae blandae similes, the narrower fronds in this manner of branching are similar to Rosa blanda.

- Thalictrum aquilegifolium] stipellis ovatis binis ad basin petioli ramificationum (DeCandolle), with the stipels ovate, two each at the base of the branching of the petiole.

- floribis subnutantibus laxe paniculatis, stipellis minimis ad basin praecipuorum petioli ramificationum (DeCandolle), with the flowers somewhat nodding, laxly paniculate, with the stipells very small at the base of the main branching of the petiole.

NOTE: Ramificatio intercalaris (adj.B), “in Hepaticae where branching arises below the apical cell” (Jackson).

NOTE: Ramificatio terminalis (adj.B), “”the branching arising from a division of the apical cell (Leitgeb)” (Jackson).

Ramificatio,-onis (s.f.III) monopodialis, monopodial branching, branching differentiated into primary and secondary shoots (stems and branches); a growth pattern with a single and continuous axis.

. Ramificatio,-onis (s.f.III) sympodialis: symodial branching, branching made up of successive secondary axes (not from a terminal bud) each of which represents one fork of a dichotomy, the other fork of which is of weaker growth or suppressed entirely.

NOTE: flabelliramous, polytomous, "branching by division of the apical meristem to produce more than three equal derivatives" (Kiger & Porter 2001): flabelliramosus,-a,-um (adj.A), polytomus,-a,-um (adj.A).