verticil

The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.

This suppression when confined to the parts of certain verticils makes the flower asymmetrical.

Stamens 12 in 4 verticils, 9 fertile and 3 inner sterile.

In panicles, especially when they are diffuse, the primary branches may be disposed irregularly or in verticils on the main axis.

Meiophylly of the flower as a whole.—In the preceding sections a reduction in the parts of each individual whorl has been considered without reference to similar diminution in neighbouring verticils.