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MISIN

Midwest Invasive Species Information Network

Musaceae

Banana Family. Comprised of 2 genera and about 50 species native to Africa, Asia and Australia. Members of this family usually have a pseudostem formed from the leaf sheaths, very large leaves, leaves with a thick midrib and parallel veins, separate male and female flowers on the same plant, flowers and fruit in dense bunches, and a fleshy fruit with several hard stony seeds.

Mytilidae

Marine Mussel Family. Comprised of 54 genera and about 412 species of small to large marine and brackish-water bivalve mollusks.

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Najadaceae

Water-nymph or Naiad Family. Comprised of 1 genera and about 40 species. Members are typically annual, rarely perennial, herbs that are not rhizomatous and do not have turions.

Nymph

Sexually immature form usually similar to the adult and found in such insects as grasshoppers and cockroaches, which have incomplete, or hemimetabolic, metamorphosis.
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Oblong

Longer than wide, with parallel sides, but broad, rather than narrow.

Ocrea

An ocrea is a membranous sheath around the stem where a leaf attaches.

Oleaceae

Olive Family. Comprised of 24 genera and about 615 species of woody trees or shrubs. Members of this family have four sepals, four petals, two stamens, and two fused carpets that form a single superior ovary. Many are cultivated for their beautiful and fragrant flowers.

Opposite

Situated directly across from; as in leaves or branches at the same node.

Orbicular

Circular in outline.