A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

divaricatus,-a,-um (part.A): divaricate; “extremely divergent” (Jackson); “spreading asunder at a wide angle,”(Stearn); widely divergent; “straggling, spreading abruptly, and at an obtuse angle, such as 140*” (Lindley); “extremely divergent” (Jackson); “growing in a straggling manner” (Paxton); “spreading; growing in a straggling manner” (Stearn 1996); more widely spreading than ‘divergent;’ see divergens,-entis (part.B);

straggling (Eng. adj.), to spread irregularly; irregularly wandering, rambling, spreading.

Cf. marcoticus,-a,-um (adj.A), drooping.

divaricat: third-person singular present active indicative; [he/she]it spreads widely;

- Veining, q.v.: vena divaricata, abl. pl. venis divaricatis, with the veins divaricating beteen 60 and 80 degrees (Stearn).

- flores diffusi vel divaricati, the flowers loosely to widely spreading.

- divaricato-venosus,-a,-um (adj.A), with divaricatly spreading veins.

- ramis teretiusculis, saepe divaricatis, nunc spinescentibus (B&H), with the branches somewhat round, often divaricate, sometimes spinescent.

- Embryo minutus, hilo proximus, cotyledonibus divaricatis (B&H), embryo minute, close to the hilum, with the cotyledons widely spreading.

- Columna staminea apice divaricato-2-3-loba. (B&H), the stamen-column at the apex divaricately 2-3-lobed.

- cotyledones planae, basi divaricatae, dein parallelae (B&H), cotyledones flat, wide-spreading at the base, then parallel.

- stigma verticale, submitraeforme, lobis divaricato-deflexis placentis oppositis.(B&H), stigma vertical, somewhat mitriform, with the lobes opposite the placentae wide-spreading-deflexed.

- stylus saepius apice plus minus complanato-dilatatus v. divaricato-bilobus (B&H), the style very often at the apex moreorless complanate-dilated or wide-spreading-bilobed.

- carpella stellatim divaricata, 1-sperma (B&H), the carpels wide-spreading in the manner of a star, 1-seeded.

- stylo brevi, stigmatis lobis erectis v. divaricatis, with the style short, with the lobes of the stigma erect or wide-spreading.

- caulibus flexuosis humilibus parce ramoso-divaricatis (Boissier),with the stems flexuose, low-growing, moderately divaricately-branched [i.e. widely-divergent].

- [fungi] Solum natale pertinacissima sibi eligit prorsus peculiare: nidulatur enim in Pini piceae strobilis vetustis semiputribus, quos fundum paginae squamarum superioris circumquaque occupans distendit mireque divaricat (S&A), it selects for itself the most unswerving certainly peculiar native substrate, for it nestles in the very old, half-rotted strobili of Pinus picea, which, occupying the base of the upper side of the scales all around, it swells them out and spreads them remarkably wide.

Helianthus divaricatus L. in reference to the nearly sessile, strictly opposite leaves.