Fasciculate

Fasciculate [ Botany - Habit of growth ]

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A clustering habit or a growth form characterized by many offsets, or parts arising from one single point forming a tight cluster or bundle.

For example:

Fasciculate inflorescence (Many flowers arising from one point that grow in dense bunches).
Fasciculate root system (Synonym: Fibrous root system)
Fasciculate habit (Many branches or offsets arising from the base that form tight clusters)
Fasciculate leaves (Dense tuft of leaves gathered in a bundle)

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Holdfast roots [ Botany ]
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Some species of climbing plants develop holdfast roots which help to support the vines on trees, walls, and rocks. By forcing their way into minute pores and crevices, they hold the plant firmly in place.

Climbing plants, like the poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans), Boston ivy (Parthenocissus tricuspidata), and trumpet creeper (Campsis radicans), develop holdfast roots which help to support the vines on trees, walls, and rocks. By forcing their way into minute pores and crevices, they hold the plant firmly in place. Usually the Holdfast roots die at the end of the first season, but in some species they are perennial. In the tropics some of the large climbing plants have hold-fast roots by which they attach themselves, and long, cord-like roots that extend downward through the air and may lengthen and branch for several years until they strike the soil and become absorbent roots.

Major references and further lectures:
1) E. N. Transeau “General Botany” Discovery Publishing House, 1994