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English
Etymology
From Latin latus (“broad”) + English costate.
Adjective
laticostate (comparative more laticostate, superlative most laticostate)
- (especially botany, rare) Having broad ribs.
2009, S. B. Gontcharova, A. A. Gontcharov, V. V. Yakubov, K. Kondo, “Seed surface morphology in some representatives of the genus Rhodiola sect. Rhodiola (Crassulaceae) in the Russian Far East”, in Flora - Morphology, Distribution, Functional Ecology of Plants:However, plants from Europe have a laticostate seed surface, while those from Asia are observed to have two types of seed coats (laticostate and tenuicostate),
2018, B Özüdoğru, “Phylogenetic position, taxonomy, distribution, and conservation status of the rare and poorly-known Noccaea rosularis, the generic type of Masmenia …”, in Phytotaxa:Seed micromorphology:—Seed coat is laticostate. Epidermal cells are elliptical to irregularly pentagonal. Cell walls are thickened mostly at the corners, the boundaries are raised
- (Can we date this quote?), Zoltán Fehér, Z. Erőss, A. Varga, Contributions to the knowledge of the Albanian Cochlostoma fauna:
- Populations in Torovicë and at the Fangul-pass certainly belong to the nominate form, although a part of the specimens in Torovicë are extremely widely-spaced (laticostate), and some
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