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Flower - pedicel

This feature concerns individual flowers, not heads, flower clusters, or other inflorescence types.

A flower with a short pedicel may appear sessile. If it has a pedicel though, there should be a line of demarcation separating the pedicel from the flower.

absent (flower sessile)		present (flower pedicellate) Pedicels may be long or short.