A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

ampliatus,-a,-um (part.A): ampliate, enlarged, increased, extended, expanded, usually after or during development, as a ripening calyx ‘post anthesin’ after the flowering period; (in fungi) enlarged (S&D); (in liverworts) enlarged, outwardly curved as in the dorsal margin of the leaves of some species [> L. amplio,-avi,-atum, 1. to make wider, to extend, enlarge, increase, amplify];

- figurae 1-2 magnitudine naturali, 3-10 vario gradu ampliatae (F. Muell.), figures 1-2 at natural size, 3-10 enlarged at a different degree.

- 10, capsula magnitudine naturali; 11, capsula ampliata (F. Muell.), [figure] 10, the capsule at natural size; [figure] 11, the capsule enlarged.

- calycis lobis rotundato-obtusis ciliatis tubo demum turgente vix costato superne ampliato duplo brevioribus (F. Muell.), with the lobes of the alyx rounded-obtuse, ciliate, two times shorter than the tube when finally swelling out, scarcely crested, expanded above.

- corollae aureae, tubo tenui, limbo valde ampliato (F. Muell.), the corolla golden, with a thin tube, with the limb strongly expanded.

- flores hermaphroditi quinquedentati, limbo minus ampliato quam in L. squamato (F. Muell.), the hermaphrodite flowers 5-toothed, with the limb less expanded than in Leptorrhynchus squamatus.

- corrollae apice leniter ampliatae (F. Muell.) the corollae at the apex slightly expanded.

- foliis herbaceis 3-5-rarius multi-jugis subsessilibus, rachi foliaceo-ampliato, foliolis approximatis obtusiusculis (F. Muell.), with the leaves herbaceous, 3-5- more rarely many-paired, nearly sessile, with a leafy-enlarged rachis, with the leaflets approximate [i.e. close but not touching] slightly obtuse.

- calyx in limbum laxum subito ampliatus(F. Muell.), the calyx into a lax limb suddenly enlarged.

- stigma truncatum interdum eximie ampliatum (F. Muell.).

- corollae tubo sensim ampliato, corolla with a gradually enlarged tube.

- calycis tubus seu torus ampliatus, demum fructum involvens v. ei adhaerens (B&H), the tube of the calyx or the torus enlarged, eventually enveloping the fruit or adhering to this.

- involucellum 2-florum, per anthesin parvum, crenatum, fructiferum ampliatum (B&H), involucel 2-flowered, small throughout anthesis, crenate, the fruit-bearing one enlarged.

- capsula involucro ampliato inclusa (B&H), capsule enclosed with the enlarged involucre.

- calyx campanulatus, 5-fidus, post anthesin membranaceo-ampliatus (B&H), calyx campanulate, 5-fid, after flowering membranaceous-enlarged.

- fructus intra basin calycis ampliati sessilis, nucamentaceus (B&H), fruit sessile inside the base of the enlarged calyx, nut-like.

ampliatiflorus,-a,-um (adj.A): “(obsol.) a bad term applied to those Composites which have the florets of the ray enlarged, as in the Corncockle (Centaurea Cyanus)” (Lindley).