suffruticose

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suffruticose

(of plants, particularly shrubs) having a permanent woody base, and upper branches that die back after flowering.

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Molecular phylogeny based on nuclear and chloroplast DNA markers, suggests a temperate South America origin with the suffruticose species appearing in the basal position (Meudt & Simpson, 2006).

Tropical and temperate: evolutionary history of paramo flora

Entirely procumbent vine, suffruticose, rarely fruticans, with mainstems 0.6-1.5 m long radiating from a xylopodia to 3 cm diam.

New species of Waltheria (Hermannieae, Byttnerioideae, Malvaceae (1)) from Paraguay, Argentina, and Venezuela, and two new records for Paraguay

Most of the species are herbaceous, perennial, highly-branched, and suffruticose at the base with stems arising from a woody tap root.