Glossary Term: Synapomorphic
Apomorphic and shared with other taxa. A synapomorphic character state is a not plesiomorphic character state which occurs in at least two taxa in a phylogeny containg those taxa.
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Synapomorphic
Cladogram of six taxa, t1 to t6, with character states indicated by bullets; the characters states 4 and 10 are synapomorphic with respect to the red taxa t3, t4, t5, and t6. It is important to note that in a cladogram only comprising the red taxa the character states 4 and 10 would be called symplesiomorphic.
- Saccate
- Sagittate
- Saprophyte
- Scaberulous
- Scabrid
- Scale
- Scalpelliform
- Scandent
- Scarious
- Scrotiform
- Scutellum
- Secondary axis
- Secondary nerves
- Sectile
- Section
- Secund
- Seed
- Semi-
- Semiterete
- Sepal
- Sepals
- Septate
- Septum
- Sericeous
- Serrate
- Serrulate
- Sessile
- Seta
- Setae
- Setose
- Sigmoid
- Simple
- Sinuate
- Sister group
- Sister groups
- Smooth
- Spatha
- Spatulate
- Spike
- Spur
- Spurred
- Squamulose
- Stamen
- Staminode
- Stelidia
- Stellate
- Sterile bracts
- Stigma
- Stigmatophore
- Stigmatophores
- Stipe
- Stipulaceous
- Striate
- Strigose
- Style
- Sub-
- Subfamily
- Subgenus
- Subglabrous
- Subpetiolate
- Subterete
- Subtribe
- Subulate
- Succulent
- Sulcate
- Superposed
- Suture
- Symbiont
- Symbiotic
- Sympatric
- Symplesiomorphic
- Symplesiomorphy
- Sympodial
- Synanthous
- Synapomorphic
- Synapomorphy
- Synsepalum
- Syntype
- Systematics