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Etymology

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subfastigiate +‎ -ly

Adverb

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subfastigiately (not comparable)

  1. (botany, obsolete) In a subfastigiate manner.
    • 1856, William Starling Sullivant, The musci and hepaticæ of the United States east of the Mississippi River[1], page 674:
      H. praténse, Koch. Diœcious (in European specimens pseudomonœcious, Bryol. Europ.); stems ascending, divided, subfastigiately branched; branches sparingly ramulose cauline leaves subcomplanate, decurved at the apex (those of the branches secund-falcate), ovate-lanceolate, minutely serrulate above; capsue cernuous, incurved-oblong; operculum convex-conic.
    • 1877, J. G. Baker, Flora of Mauritius and the Seychelles, page 383:
      Flowers in spirally-disposed 3-flowered clusters on the branches of a simply subfastigiately branched spadix, the female flower between and below two males.
    • 1902, Sir George King, Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula[2], page 132:
      An erect slender herb, sparingly subfastigiately branched; branches towards their tips finely downy with hooked hairs.