verticillastern.
/ˌvəːtɪsɪˈlastə/ Botany.
A form of inflorescence occurring in certain labiate plants (see quots.); a false whorl.
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1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. 112 If the cyme is reduced to a very few flowers, and those few become corymbose, such a disposition has been called a verticillaster by Hoffmansegg.
1861 R. Bentley Man. Bot. i. iv. 213 The Verticillaster.—This kind of cyme is seen in the White Dead-nettle.
1872 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (new ed.) ii. 217 A coarse perennial herb, with..axillary cymes (forming verticillasters) of bilabiate white flowers.
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