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Poculiform (poculiforme) cylindrically cup-shaped, with the base hemispherical, and but slightly, or not at all, spreading or recurved at the mouth.
1830, Jonathan Stokes, Botanical Commentaries, volume 1, London: Simpkin and Marshall; Treuttel & Würtz, →OCLC, pages 13–14:
JASMINUM bracteatum[…]Calyx pubescent; tube poculiform, subnervose; segments setaceous, erect, as long as the tube.
1866, Thomas Moore, “ASSARACUS”, in John Lindley, Thomas Moore, editors, The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with which is Incorporated a Glossary of Botanical Terms, volume 1, London: Longmans, Green & Co., →OCLC, page 104:
A subdivision of the genus Narcissus, including N. capax and N. reflexus, in which the segments of the perianth are semi-reflexed, and the coronet poculiform, about equalling the perianth segments.
ubgenital plate of male poculiform, narrowly rounded at apex as seen from dorsum […]
2013, Freda Cox, “Hybrids, Cultivars, Varieties and Forms”, in Gardener's Guide to Snowdrops, New York, N.Y.: Crowood, →ISBN:
Poculiforms Known since the nineteenth century, poculiform snowdrops derive their name from the Latin poculus ('little cup'), and were named by the Revd. Henry Harpur-Crew (1828–1883). The inner segments are elongated so that all six flower segments are generally equal in length, forming a rounded, bowl-shaped flower.
2015 February 7, Val Bourne, “The quiet man of the world of snowdrops”, in The Daily Telegraph (London), page G8:
'The Bride' [a snowdrop variety], found in the early Seventies at Foxcote Farm near Cheltenham, was his first discovery. It's a poculiform (cup-shaped) G. elwesii with six pure white petals of the same length. Like many poculiforms […] it's not a strong grower.
A variety of snowdrop with petals of the same length.
2013, Freda Cox, “Hybrids, Cultivars, Varieties and Forms”, in Gardener's Guide to Snowdrops, New York, N.Y.: Crowood, →ISBN:
Poculiforms Known since the nineteenth century, poculiform snowdrops derive their name from the Latin poculus ('little cup'), and were named by the Revd. Henry Harpur-Crew (1828–1883). The inner segments are elongated so that all six flower segments are generally equal in length, forming a rounded, bowl-shaped flower.
2015 February 7, Val Bourne, “The quiet man of the world of snowdrops”, in The Daily Telegraph (London), page G8:
'The Bride' [a snowdrop variety], found in the early Seventies at Foxcote Farm near Cheltenham, was his first discovery. It's a poculiform (cup-shaped) G. elwesii with six pure white petals of the same length. Like many poculiforms[…] it's not a strong grower.
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