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Pachymorph
Rhizome system characterized by a shortened, thick and fleshy stem and many-branched clumps and closely packed culms.
Palea

Upper or inner of a pair bracts that subtends the floret panicle type of indeterminate branched inflorescence in which all the flowers are pedicellate (stalked) and borne by the secondary axis.

Parallel Venation
Numerous veins (bundles of vascular tissue) run through the blade of the leaf, serving to bring water and to collect the products of photosynthesis; in some plants, the larger veins all run the length of the blade with smaller veins branching off and interconnecting them and is called parallel venation
Parenchyma
Brick-shaped, generally living cells, primarily for tge storage and distribution of carbohydrates
Perennial
A plant that lives for a number of years
Pericarp
Wall of a fertilized ovary; sometimes differentiated into distinct layers such as exocarp, mesocarp and endocarp (outer, middle and inner carps)
Permeability
A measure of the ease of liquid penetration into bamboo tissue
Persistent
Remaining attached even after the attainment of maturity, like the culm sheath in certain species of bamboos
Petal
Sterile leaf-like structures in flowers that serve to attract pollinators
pH
A measure of the amount of lime (calcium) contained in the soil; pH values of 0 to 6.5 indicate acidic conditions, a pH value of 7.0 indicates neutral conditions and pH values greater then 7.0 indicate alkaline conditions
Plantation
A plot of land on which intensive cultivation is practised using scientific principles of managment
Plumose

Covered with a fine, feather-like pubescence

Powdery mass
Silicaceous material with powder-like appearance, for the protection of young culms
Preservative
Toxic chemicals that prevent the development and/or growth of wood destroying organisms
Pressure treatment
Any treatment in which the preservative is forced into the wood by pressure in a closed vessel or pressure cylinder
Prophylactic treatment
Prevention or short term protection against insect and fungal attack
Prophyll
First leaf of a branch; a kind of sheath found at the first node of a branch or scale-like appendage
Prophyllate bud
A bud with a prophyll
Pruning
Removal of branches to divert nutrients for the growth of new culms and to prevent congestion
Pseudospikelet
spikelet-like inflorescence; unlike a true spikelet, it has bracts at its base each of which bears a prophyllate bud
Pubescent
Covered with hairs rachilla secondary axis, like the stalk of grass spikelets

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