Look up sessile in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sessility, or sessile, may refer to: Sessility (motility), organisms which are not able to move about...

self-locomotion. Sessile animals do not have natural motility, and are immobile unless there are external forces (such as water currents). Usually, sessile animals...

Tapinoma sessile is a species of small ant that goes by the common names odorous house ant, sugar ant, stink ant, and coconut ant. Their colonies are...

Ganoderma sessile is a species of polypore fungus in the Ganodermataceae family. There is taxonomic uncertainty with this fungus since its circumscription...

that is, not completely sessile. A sessile flower is one that lacks a pedicel (flower stalk). A flower that is not sessile is pedicellate. For example...

A sessile serrated lesion (SSL) is a premalignant flat (or sessile) lesion of the colon, predominantly seen in the cecum and ascending colon. SSLs are...

Sessilia is an unranked clade of barnacles, comprising the barnacles without stalks, or acorn barnacles. They form a monophyletic group and are probably...

Quercus petraea, commonly known as the sessile oak, Welsh oak, Cornish oak, Irish oak or durmast oak, is a species of deciduous oak tree native to most...

Trillium sessile is a species of flowering plant in the bunchflower family Melanthiaceae. The specific epithet sessile means "attached without a distinct...

Leucadendron sessile, the western sunbush, is a flower-bearing shrub belonging to the genus Leucadendron and forms part of the fynbos. The plant is native...

Pilidiostigma sessile is a species of plant in the clove and eucalyptus family Myrtaceae which is endemic to the Wet Tropics bioregion of Queensland,...

In materials science, the sessile drop technique is a method used for the characterization of solid surface energies, and in some cases, aspects of liquid...

tidal waters. Some 2,100 species have been described. Barnacle adults are sessile; most are suspension feeders with hard calcareous shells, but the Rhizocephala...

Mycorrhaphium sessile is a species of tooth fungus in the family Steccherinaceae that is found in China. It was described as a new species in 2009 by...

The Fuck Tree is a sessile oak tree on West Heath on Hampstead Heath in north London. It is located in an established gay cruising area. It is noted for...

represents a rare deep-marine paleoenviroment, which was home to various sessile forms, most predominantly, the petalonamids like Fractofusus and Frondophyllas...

the same membranes. Within their life cycle, Synchroma cells are usually sessile and protected by a lorica. These cells can join their reticulopodia in...

a member of the Trillium cuneatum complex, a closely related group of sessile-flowered trilliums. The species is endemic to the southeastern United States...

Amauroderma sessile is a polypore fungus in the family Ganodermataceae. It was described as a new species in 2015 by mycologists Allyne Christina Gomes-Silva...

The dynamic sessile drop is similar to the static sessile drop but requires the drop to be modified. A common type of dynamic sessile drop study determines...

Warea sessilifolia is a species of flowering plant in the Warea genus. It grows in the Florida panhandle, Alabama, and Georgia. An annual dicot, its common...

flower head or capitulum is a very contracted raceme in which the single sessile flowers share are borne on an enlarged stem. It is characteristic of Dipsacaceae...

flower has no stalk, T. chloropetalum belongs to subgenus Sessilia, the sessile-flowered trilliums. It is one of the largest of all Trillium species, with...

by several common names, including sissoo spinach, Brazilian spinach, sessile joyweed, dwarf copperleaf. It is cultivated as a vegetable worldwide. The...

Uvularia sessilifolia, the sessile bellwort, sessileleaf bellwort, little merrybells or wild oats, is a species of bellwort native to eastern and central...

Thecostraca Facetotecta Ascothoracida Cirripedia Acrothoracica Thoracica (stalked and acorn barnacles) sessile Rhizocephala parasitic barnacles...

adenoma, the mass is covered in columnar epithelial cells.[citation needed] Sessile serrated adenomas are characterized by (1) basal dilation of the crypts...

asexually. Cnidarians mostly have two basic body forms: swimming medusae and sessile polyps, both of which are radially symmetrical with mouths surrounded by...

Cephalodiscus nigrescens is a sessile hemichordate belonging to the order Cephalodiscida. The parasitic protozoan Neurosporidium cephalodisci has been...

and others near the poles. The great majority of bryozoans are sessile. Typically, sessile bryozoans live on hard substrates including rocks, sand or shells...

implausible and so S. psygmoglena was thought to be either a sessile basal ctenophore, or a sessile organism closely related to ctenophores instead. Nevertheless...

The Queen Elizabeth Oak is a large sessile oak tree (Quercus petraea) in Cowdray Park near the village of Lodsworth in the Western Weald, West Sussex...

mainly attributed to the tsunami and its physical impacts. In particular, sessile epibenthic animals and endobenthic animals both decreased in taxon richness...

motile larval and imago stages, the pupal stage of an insect is typically sessile, where the pupa remains anchored to a location until the metamorphosis...

including T. chloropetalum, T. erectum, T. grandiflorum, T. maculatum, T. sessile, and T. undulatum. In 1753, Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus established...

Type Description Subclasses 1 Polypoid p: protruded, pedunculated s: sessile 2 Nonpolypoid a: slightly elevated b: flat c: slightly depressed 3 Excavated...

Willd. Sesuvium revolutifolium Ortega Sesuvium revolutum Pers. Sesuvium sessile Pers. Sesuvium sessiliflorum Dombey ex Rohrb. Trianthema americana Gillies...

The Pontfadog Oak was a sessile oak tree (Quercus petraea) that stood on Cilcochwyn farm above the village of Pontfadog, in the Ceiriog Valley west of...

Charniodiscus sp. Sessile frondose organism. Culmofrons C. plumosa Sessile frondose organism, junior synonym of Beothukis. Beothukis B. plumosa Sessile frondose...

ventricosa Paphies australis Tuatua Ruditapes largillierti Grooved carpet shell Sessile bivalves Oyster Mussel Pearl oyster Pinctada maxima Freshwater bivalves...

the stem and is said to be sessile or apetiolate. Subpetiolate leaves have an extremely short petiole and may appear sessile. The broomrape family, Orobanchaceae...

Arborea A. spinosa Sessile arboreomorph organism. Aninoides A. coombsorum Sessile rangeomorph organism. Beothukis Beothukis sp. Sessile rangeomorph organism...

planktonic, others move by inchworming along a substrate, and some are sessile, living inside tubes or gelatinous holdfasts that are attached to a substrate...

(/æmˈfɪpədə/) is an order of malacostracan crustaceans characterized by sessile eyes and the absence of a carapace. Amphipods (/ˈæmfɪpɒdz/) comprise more...

Rovereto (Italian pronunciation: [roveˈreːto]; "wood of sessile oaks"; locally: Roveredo; ladin: Rurëi) is a city and comune in Trentino in northern Italy...

possible that many tommotiids need redescribing as sessile tube-dwellers. Eccentrotheca and other similar sessile tommotiids were likely filter feeders, similar...

to be pedunculated; if it is attached without a stalk, it is said to be sessile. Some polyps are tumors (neoplasms) and others are non-neoplastic, for...

Epopella plicata is a species of symmetrical sessile barnacle in the family Tetraclitidae. It is found in New Zealand. "Epopella plicata". GBIF. Retrieved...

Cephalodiscus kempi is a sessile hemichordate belonging to the order Cephalodiscida. John C (1932) On the development of Cephalodiscus. Discovery Reports...

Eochionelasmus ohtai is a species of symmetrical sessile barnacle in the family Chionelasmatidae. These subspecies belong to the species Eochionelasmus...

revives the idea of a sessile sedentary biphasic ancestor. This proposes that the urbilaterian is an organism whose adult life is sessile-sedentary with a...

holdfast is a root-like structure that anchors aquatic sessile organisms, such as seaweed, other sessile algae, stalked crinoids, benthic cnidarians, and sponges...

all mobile animals, second in the entire animal kingdom only to certain sessile barnacles. Penis elongation in Onykia ingens may result in a penis that...

New South Wales. It has smooth bark, egg-shaped, heart-shaped or round, sessile leaves arranged in opposite pairs, flower buds in groups of three, white...

conspicuously large, dark purple-red flower, one of the largest of any sessile-flowered trillium. Unlike most other authorities, the influential Jepson...

This article contains a list of all of the classes and orders that are located in the Phylum Chordata. The subphyla Tunicata and Vertebrata are in the...

Other name Irish name Irish placename reference Image 1 Quercus petraea Sessile oak Irish oak Dair Ghaelach Derry = Doire 2 Quercus robur Pedunculate oak...

to 2.5 in) in length, and 0.8–4 cm (0.3–1.6 in) in width. They may be sessile (that is, growing directly from the stem without a petiole) or on a petiole...

Western Australia. It is a dioecious shrub with many branches, sessile, oblong leaves, and sessile flowers borne singly in leaf axils. Bertya virgata is a dioecious...

linfordensis Sessile frondose organism. Charnia C. masoni Sessile frondose organism. Charniodiscus Charniodiscus sp. C. arboreus(?) Sessile frondose organism...

ant) Tapinoma Tapinoma darioi Tapinoma ibericum Tapinoma magnum Tapinoma sessile Technomyrmex albipes Tetramorium alpestre Vollenhovia emeryi Wasmannia...

Bomakellia B. kelleri Sessile frondose organism. Charnia Charnia sp. Sessile frondose organism. Charniodiscus Charniodiscus sp. Sessile frondose organism...

Appendicularia (larvaceans) swim freely like plankton, sea squirts are sessile animals after their larval phase: they then remain firmly attached to their...

Gymnolaemata are a class of Bryozoans. Gymnolaemata are sessile, mostly marine organisms and grow on the surfaces of rocks, kelp, and in some cases on...

stipes; many mushrooms lack a distinct stipe, instead producing sessile or nearly sessile fruiting bodies attached directly to wood or other substrates...

Elminius kingii is a species of symmetrical sessile barnacle in the family Elminiidae. Elminius kingii lives in the southeast Pacific Ocean and southwest...

Cephalodiscus solidus is a sessile hemichordate belonging to the order Cephalodiscida. Andersson K (1907) Die Pterobranchier der Schwedischen Sudpolar-Expedition...

Dicrypta baueri Lindl. Dicrypta crassifolia (Lindl.) Loudon Epidendrum sessile Sw. Heterotaxis crassifolia Lindl. Heterotaxis gatunensis (Schltr.) Szlach...

the liquid, instead of placing a drop on the solid as in the case of the sessile drop technique. A liquid and a solid are replaced by using drop shape analysis...

Large sessile polyps are more difficult to remove endoscopically, and polypectomy in these cases has a higher risk of complication. Sessile polyps up...

200 described species. Many species have planktonic larvae which become sessile or parasitic as adults. The most prevalent subgroup are the barnacles (subclass...

feeders with multiple gill slits, and feed on plankton. Sea squirts are sessile organisms and consist mainly of water pumps and filter-feeding apparatus...

the castello of Serravalle. Its name, in Italian, refers to a wood of "Sessile Oaks". It is San Marino's northeasternmost settlement. In 1957 there was...

arrowhead shaped leaves of species like the Sagittaria latifolia. it has sessile female flowers, from whence its name comes. Its flowers are very similar...

(stalked jellyfish) are characterized by a medusa form that is generally sessile, oriented upside down and with a stalk emerging from the apex of the "calyx"...

heterotrophs, unlike plants, and while most fungi are sessile like plants, there are also sessile animals. Cavalier-Smith and Alexandra Stechmann argue...

and is endemic to Western Australia. It is an erect, annual herb with sessile narrowly elliptic, lance-shaped or linear leaves, compound heads of yellow...

meaning "lobe", and ζῷον (zôion), meaning "animal", is a phylum of extinct, sessile animals that were originally classified into the Cnidaria. The basic body...

and geophysicist, William Albert Zisman (1905–1986). It is a prominent Sessile drop technique used for characterizing liquid-surface interactions based...

contamination status of the ecosystem. They are particularly useful since they are sessile so that they are representative of the environment where they are sampled...

Capitulum is a monotypic genus of sessile marine stalked barnacles. Capitulum mitella is the only species in the genus. It is commonly known as the Japanese...

Ganoderma pseudoferreum Ganoderma resinaceum Ganoderma rubra Ganoderma sessile Ganoderma sichuanense Ganoderma sinense Ganoderma steyaertanum Ganoderma...

bioaccumulation and, as a result, are indicator organisms. Filter feeders can be sessile, planktonic, nektonic or even neustonic (in the case of the buoy barnacle)...

marine animals were sessile and attached to the seafloor. During the Mesozoic, only about half of the marine animals were sessile, while the rest were...

Melanthiaceae. It is a member of the Trillium cuneatum complex, a subgroup of the sessile-flowered trilliums. It is native to the southeastern United States but...

Australia and Canada. It is notably tubular in appearance, and may have been sessile in life. It is a monotypic genus, containing only Aulozoon soliorum. Fossils...

remarkable for being a predator of copepods, which is very unusual for a sessile mollusc. Genera and species within the family Poromyidae include: Cetomya...

Crinozoa is a subphylum of mostly sessile echinoderms, of which the crinoids, or sea lilies and feather stars, are the only extant members. Crinozoans...

species of saprophytic fungus in the family Crepidotaceae with a stipeless sessile cap. The fungus was described by Egon Horak in 2018 and has been found...

constantly changing. Each reef is made up of irregular patches of algae, sessile invertebrates, and bare rock and sand. The size, shape, and relative abundance...

find the capillary length is using different pressure points inside a sessile droplet, with each point having a radius of curvature, and equate them...

grow 20 to 30 centimeters high. Its 10 to 15 millimeter-length leaves are sessile, glabrous and broadly linear to oblanceolate in shape. Flowers form along...

Metalasma is a genus of symmetrical sessile barnacles in the family Pachylasmatidae. There is one described species in Metalasma, M. crassum. "Metalasma"...

the event, and would not fully recover until much later in the Jurassic. Sessile filter feeders and photosymbiotic organisms were among those most severely...

welding process to be used. The lower the η, the better the RW Regarding sessile drop technique, wetting is characterized by degree of interfacial contact...

animal phylum Porifera (/pəˈrɪfərəˌ pɔː-/; meaning 'pore bearer'). They are sessile filter feeders that are bound to the seabed, and are one of the most ancient...

It may be absent in some plants; in this case, it is referred to as a sessile stigma. Styles generally resemble more or less long tubes. The style can...

opium poppy, and several others, although those with a style do exist. The sessile plate-like stigmata lies on top of the ovary. Pollen-receptive surfaces...

are parasitic (e.g. Rhizocephala, fish lice, tongue worms) and some are sessile (e.g. barnacles). The group has an extensive fossil record, reaching back...

Strecker, 1899 Carneades naevulus Smith, 1900 Carneades termessus Smith, 1900 Carneades sessile Smith, 1900 Euxoa sessilis Euxoa yukonensis Lafontaine, 1987...

made up of numerous lamellae (thin layers). They are thought to have been sessile animals that grew with the narrower tip anchored to the seafloor, with...

sessilifolium, known by the common names Baja California yerba santa, sessile-leaved yerba santa or sessileleaf yerba santa is a perennial shrub in the...

slender, erect or straggling shrub with cylindrical leaves and more or less sessile clusters of creamy-white to pink flowers. Cryptandra myriantha is a slender...

reticulatum Wedd. Synonyms Elatostema reticulatum var. glabrum Domin Elatostema reticulatum var. minus Domin Elatostema reticulatum var. sessile Benth....

types of dislocations are sessile dislocations which are immobile and glissile dislocations which are mobile. Examples of sessile dislocations are the stair-rod...

Cystangium balpineum, better known as the white sessile truffle, is a basidiomycete mushroom. Truffle Lebel, Teresa (2003). "Australasian sequestrate...

(fuselli). Most extinct graptolites belong to two major orders: the bush-like sessile Dendroidea and the planktonic, free-floating Graptoloidea. These orders...

association with geologically active regions of the deep sea. Riftia worms are sessile and are found clustered together in large colonies around deep-sea hydrothermal...

Kamptozoa /kæm(p)təˈzoʊə/, commonly called goblet worms, is a phylum of mostly-sessile aquatic animals, ranging from 0.1 to 7 millimetres (0.004 to 0.3 in) long...

flat base (sessile) or be attached to the uterus by an elongated pedicle (pedunculated). Pedunculated polyps are more common than sessile ones. They range...

oval-triangular blade about 3 cm long by 1.5 cm wide. The upper leaves are sessile or only very shortly petiolate, slightly larger and more oval. The leaves...

sessilifolia is from the Latin meaning 'leaf without stalk', referring to the sessile leaves. Buchanania sessilifolia grows as a tree up to 20 metres (70 ft)...

growth. It may appear white or normal-colored. It may be pedunculated or sessile. The typical size range is 1–5 cm. Neither sex is significantly more likely...

associated germline mutation. The types of polyps found in SPS include sessile serrated adenomas/polyps, traditional serrated adenomas, and hyperplastic...

distinct tissues, unlike all other animals. Sponges are almost entirely sessile in their adult stage. They lack true nerve cells. Sponges lack a digestive...

It has rough, tessellated bark on the trunk and branches, a crown of sessile juvenile leaves, flower buds in groups of three or seven, pale creamy yellow...

distinct species from North American specimens described as G. lucidum (G. sessile), which is much more widely distributed throughout the US. There is also...

all of their bodily features atrophied, leaving them little more than a sessile blob of organs (vaguely similar to liver flukes). Several creatures within...

leaves are generally 5–10 cm (2.0–3.9 in) long, the stem leaves being sessile and branch leaves sometimes having a petiole up to 5 cm long. The leaves...

glossy green. In contrast, the leaves of seedlings are often opposite, sessile and glaucous. But many exceptions to this pattern exist. Many species such...

land covered by the forest is varied planting of broad-leaved (mainly sessile oak and beech) and pine (mainly Scots pine) trees. It is well known for...

Facivermis (meaning "torch worm" ) is a genus of sessile lobopodian from the Lower Cambrian Maotianshan shales of China Facivermis was a worm-like creature...

Eurylasma is a genus of symmetrical sessile barnacles in the family Pachylasmatidae. There are at least three described species in Eurylasma. These species...

comprises five species. Unlike most hydromedusae, these do not have a sessile stage. Rather, they spend their entire lives in the water column as plankton...

planktonic phase (a larva called planula), and a later characteristic sessile phase. Octocorals have existed at least since the Ordovician period, as...

colonise the surface of the leaves and rhizomes of the plant), vagile and sessile animal communities, and communities of detritivorous organisms. Along the...

endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It has smooth bark, usually sessile, heart-shaped adult leaves arranged in opposite pairs, large red flowers...

and which culminated in a large evolutionary radiation event of mostly sessile macrofaunae known as the Avalon Explosion. This was followed in the early...

anthozoan life cycle involves a planula larva which settles and becomes a sessile polyp, which is the adult or sexual phase. There is considerable divergence...

inflorescence. In the absence of a pedicel, the flowers are described as sessile. Pedicel is also applied to the stem of the infructescence. The word "pedicel"...

Proteaceae, native to Borneo. The specific epithet sessilifolia refers to the sessile (or stalkless) leaves. Helicia sessilifolia grows up to 10 metres (33 ft)...

oval organism. Aulozoon A. soliorum 1T-F, TC-MM3, and TR-ARB Surfaces Sessile, tubular organism. Conomedusites C. lobatus TC-MM3 Surface Tetraradial...

collection of significant trees in the United Kingdom. The Big Belly Oak is a sessile oak tree (Quercus petraea). It is enormously fat, with a maximum girth...

Carl Linnaeus in 1753 (the other two being Trillium erectum and Trillium sessile). The specimen examined by Linnaeus was actually Trillium catesbaei, a...

stages of growth include the swimming larvae known as planulae; younger, sessile polyps called scyphistomae; the undeveloped young adult intermediates known...

Cephalodiscus fumosus is a sessile hemichordate belonging to the order Cephalodiscida. John C (1931) Cephalodiscus. Discovery Reports 3: 223-260. Swalla...

multicellular organisms such as sponges, algae, cnidarians, bilaterians and the sessile Ediacaran biota (some of which had evolved sexual reproduction) and provides...

Tetraclita stalactifera, the ribbed barnacle, is a species of symmetrical sessile barnacle in the family Tetraclitidae. It is found in the western Atlantic...

Verrucomorpha is an order of asymmetrical sessile barnacles in the class Thecostraca. They are typically found in deeper and deep-sea habitats. There...

hyperplastic polyp from a tubular colorectal adenoma are as follows: A sessile serrated adenoma or traditional serrated adenoma is suspected if there...

Spray with sessile, axillary figs on the terminal branchlets...

and with short petioles. The uppermost leaves can be both simple and sessile (without a petiole). Flowers are pale yellow, tubular, and clustered in...

thought that G. lingzhi generally occurred in two growth forms: a large, sessile, specimen with a small or nonexistent stalk, found in North America, and...

are either pedunculated (attached to the intestinal wall by a stalk) or sessile (grow directly from the wall). In addition to the gross appearance categorization...

stellatus. They have six well-developed limbs, and may be either stalked or sessile. The carapace is heavily calcified. The group includes free-living and...

purple gorgonian seafan, and common sea fan, is a species of sea fan, a sessile colonial soft coral. The Venus sea fan is a delicate-looking colonial soft...

Eurylasma pyramidale is a species of symmetrical sessile barnacle in the family Pachylasmatidae. "Eurylasma pyramidale". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-09-01. "World...

Clumping is a behavior in an organism, usually sessile, in which individuals of a particular species group close to one another for beneficial purposes...

bears two bractlets and three sterile flowers, each flower consisting of a sessile, membranous, usually two-lobed, calyx. Each calyx bears four short filaments...

Tetraclita squamosa, the green volcano barnacle, is a species of symmetrical sessile barnacle in the family Tetraclitidae. These subspecies belong to the species...

animals. Members belong to the hemichordates. Species in this order are sessile, living in clear water and secrete tubes on the ocean floor. The following...

word for thirst (dipsa) and refers to the cup-like formation made where sessile leaves merge at the stem. The name teasel derives from words such as Old...

4 and going extinct during the Sinsk anoxic event. Archaeocyatha were sessile, suspension feeders that pumped water through their porous cup-shaped calcareous...

Xeuali Ful Night-flowering Jasmine Nyctanthes arbor-tristis Mati-Kaduri Sessile joyweed Alternanthera sessilis Hati Khutura/ Kata Khutura Spiny amaranth...

Montequemau and Rodil in Iguña, Monte Aá in Ruente and Viaña in Cabuérniga. The sessile oak grove (Quercus petraea) replaces the ones found in the higher elevations...

the genus Clavelina (the "little bottles"). Like all ascidians, these sessile animals are filter feeders. This species is 0.5-2.5 cm long, and light...

of superfluid helium; another mechanism of side-wall surface adhesion Sessile drop technique – Method of determining the surface energy of a solid Tensiometer...

Characteristics of the species include its dark, areolate thallus, and its dark, sessile (stalkless) apothecia (fruiting bodies). It occurs on nutrient-rich limestone...

to distinguish from other cornet-shaped calcareous organisms. All were sessile and benthic; some may have been filter feeders. Because hyoliths are extinct...

trees. The leaves of young plants, coppice regrowth and mature plants have sessile leaves arranged in opposite pairs, the leaves egg-shaped to almost round...

the University of Liverpool studied the colonisation of the statues by sessile intertidal organisms, such as invasive species of barnacles.[clarification...

raceme. These flower from early summer well into autumn. The flowers are sessile on a flexuose (zigzag) arched spike. The fertile flowers are hermaphroditic...

different substrates below or just above the ocean. The adult barnacle is a sessile organism; however, in its larval stage it is planktonic and can move about...

solitary, not colonial, as is typically the case in this phylum. They are sessile, attaching to a variety of substrates including sipunculan worms. They...

depths of 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) or more.[citation needed] While generally sessile animals, sea pens are able to relocate and re-anchor themselves if need...

Malesia and North Queensland. It has rough bark, sessile, narrow elliptical leaves, white flowers and sessile, conical to hemispherical fruit. Leptospermum...

Eremophila scrobiculata is low, spreading shrub with sessile, linear leaves and lilac-coloured flowers and that is endemic to Western Australia. It grows...

endemic to Western Australia. It is an erect, glabrous, annual herb with sessile, mainly elliptic or egg-shaped leaves, compound heads of yellow flowers...

spicate. Aestivation : ascending imbricate Anthers often with a stipitate or sessile apical gland Pollen commonly in tetrads, bitetrads or polyrads Seeds usually...

March 2015. Rajaguru, A.; Shantha, G. (1992). "Association between the sessile barnacle Xenobalanus globiclpitis (Coronulidae) and the bottlenose dolphin...

trapped insect. The second type of gland found on butterwort leaves are sessile glands which lie flat on the leaf surface. Once the prey is entrapped by...

shrub with linear to narrowly lance-shaped leaves and white, more or less sessile flowers and dehiscent fruit. Kunzea ambigua is an erect shrub that typically...

an external anatomy with textures and colours that mimicked surrounding sessile invertebrate animals (often their prey sponges or soft corals) to avoid...

they are filter feeders. Unlike the related class Ascidiacea, which are sessile, but like the class Appendicularia, they are free-swimming plankton; cilia...

Myrtaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with sessile leaves and groups of about fourteen to twenty pink flowers in more or less...

2.  (of a stigma) Like the head of a pin. capitulum Dense cluster of sessile or subsessile flowers or florets, e.g. a flower head in the daisy family...

elliptic to narrowly elliptic or strap-shaped leaves, mauve flowers and a sessile, densely hairy pod. Hovea parvicalyx is a shrub that typically grows to...

deep-marine paleoenviroment, situated on a slope, which was home to various sessile forms, like the petalonamids Fractofusus and Trepassia, and even rare examples...

subphyla of Cnidaria, along with Medusozoa and Endocnidozoa. It includes sessile marine invertebrates and invertebrates of brackish water, such as sea anemones...

ISBN 978-0-444-62719-3. Bloom, S. (1975). "The motile escape response of a sessile prey: a sponge-scallop mutualism". Journal of Experimental Biology and...

Verruca stroemia, the wart barnacle, is a species of asymmetrical sessile barnacle in the family Verrucidae. "Verruca stroemia, Northern Ireland". GBIF...

species of saprophytic fungus in the family Crepidotaceae with a stipeless sessile cap distributed in North America and Europe. It is highly conspicuous and...

Cephalodiscus graptolitoides is a sessile hemichordate belonging to the order Cephalodiscida. It has encrusting tubaria. Dilly P (1993) Cephalodiscus...

Tetraclitidae is a family of sessile barnacles in the order Balanomorpha. There are about 10 genera and more than 50 described species in Tetraclitidae...

obsessive, preside, presidium, reside, resident, sedentary, sediment, sessile, session, subside, supersede, supersession sedō sed- sedav- sedat- sedate...

Cephalodiscus planitectus is a sessile hemichordate belonging to the order Cephalodiscida. It is found at a depth of 100–300 metres off the island of...

Malpighiales Family: Bonnetiaceae Genus: Ploiarium Korth. 1841 Type species Ploiarium elegans Species Ploiarium elegans Ploiarium pulcherrimum Ploiarium sessile...

trade depends on collection from the wild. A typical sea anemone is a sessile polyp attached at the base to the surface beneath it by an adhesive foot...

through the excurrent (or exhalant) siphon. Adult ascidian tunicates are sessile, immobile and permanently attached to rocks or other hard surfaces on the...

National Park, Washington, US Burl near Palfau, in central Austria Burl on a sessile oak (Quercus petraea) Brohmer Bergen, Germany One of several thousand-year-old...

Animals of Scotland, represented from Living Subjects, which concentrated on sessile marine creatures. He did not name the creature, simply referring to it...

fragments of Tomie's flesh fell into a pond below a waterfall, forming sessile bodies. These bodies used their powers to lure men into a pond, then devoured...

tree, Wellingtonia, Wollemi pine, holm oak, walnut, fastigiate beech, sessile oak, monkey puzzle, and juniper that will give a total of around fifty...

flowers have free sepals and a stamen. Many fertile female flowers are sessile and have three or four sepals and an egg-shaped ovary. The more or less...

more yellow tube-like structures that arise from a closed base and are sessile. The sponge has wide oscula and thin walls with ridged surfaces. Each tube...

Geastrum fimbriatum, commonly known as the fringed earthstar or the sessile earthstar, is an inedible species of mushroom belonging to the genus Geastrum...

Occasionally, it may be absent, in which case the stigma is described as sessile. Styles are generally tube-like—either long or short. The style can be...

Besbicus mirabilis Oregon oak North America Biorhiza pallida English oak, sessile oak Europe Trichoteras coquilletti Huckleberry oak, canyon live oak North...

Clavelina (the "little bottles"). These animals, like all ascidians, are sessile filter feeders. Clavelina picta have variable cool colours. The rims of...

about 15 cm (5.9 in) long. Flowers are whitish to pink, fragrant, nearly sessile, up to 1.5 cm (0.59 in) long, and in dense clusters 5 to 10 cm (2.0 to...

Set in the Known Space universe, the story introduces the Grogs, the sessile but sentient inhabitants of the planet Down. Mr Garvey arrives at the planet...

(fish). Cubozoans follow a life cycle that alternates between young benthic sessile polyps and adult motile pelagic medusae. The cycle begins with a planula...

perithecium Plural perithecia. A spherical or flask-shaped ascocarp that is sessile or partly immersed in the thallus, with a single opening (ostiole) and...

Foundation. 2000. ISBN 9781576470213. Media related to Vasile Ursu Nicola at Wikimedia Commons Media related to Horea's Sessile at Wikimedia Commons...

(scorpioid cyme) d. Scirpus lacustris (compound cyme) e. Dianthus (fascicle) f. Chenopodium album (sessile flowers in cymes) g. Salvia officinalis (cymule)...

the sessile oak did not suffer any death or growth suppression due to drought, but instead benefited from reduced competition with beech. Sessile oak...

Antedon is a genus of sessile, stemless crinoids found in shallow tropical and temperate marine environments worldwide. The genus first appears in the...

Vectrex video game system Spike (botany), a kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis Spike (neuroscience)...

southwest of Western Australia. It is a slender shrub with thread-like, sessile leaves, and flowers with four petals that are white to pink on the front...

winged, 10 (rarely to 15) mm long, and sometimes the leaves are almost sessile. The partial leaves are linear-filiform to narrow linear with a width of...

distinguishing the species from Ranunculus acris in which the terminal leaflet is sessile. The leaves higher on the stems are smaller, with narrower leaflets and...

Verruca is a genus of asymmetrical sessile barnacles in the family Verrucidae. There are about 20 described species in Verruca, around half of them extinct...

on young plants and on coppice regrowth are arranged in opposite pairs, sessile, glaucous, broadly egg-shaped to more or less round, up to 80 mm (3.1 in)...

years ago (mya) during the Late Cambrian/Early Ordovician period, from sessile shallow freshwater charophyte algae much like Chara, which likely got stranded...

Cephalodiscus indicus is a sessile hemichordate belonging to the order Cephalodiscida. Schepotieff A (1909) Die Pterobranchier des Indischen Ozeans. Zoologische...

Austrobalanus is a genus of symmetrical sessile barnacles in the family Austrobalanidae, the sole genus of the family. There are three described species...

40% to under 5% in four years. This in turn had a cascade effect on both sessile bottom-dwelling animals and reef fish. Asterias amurensis is a rare example...

principles as airfoils. Swimming and flying creatures and even many plants and sessile organisms employ airfoils/hydrofoils, common examples being bird wings...

variegated with transverse bands of light grey. The flowers of D. goldieana are sessile, white in colour, and form dense clusters 25-30 mm long. Dracaena goldieana...

Northern Territory. It has rough bark on the trunk and branches, a crown of sessile, juvenile leaves arranged in opposite pairs, flower buds solitary or in...

without spiny wings. Leaves are alternate on the stem with their base sessile and clasping or shortly decurrent. The leaves are very spiny, lobed, and...

sea stars are opportunistic carnivores; adults are known to prey on most sessile life forms including hard corals and sponges in an aquarium. In this same...

consists of numerous umbels, each bearing many flowers. The central umbel is sessile or shortly pedunculate and fertile, whereas the lateral umbels are male...

The leaves grow opposite each other on the stem. They are glabrous, sub-sessile, elliptical, and lanceolate (long and wider in the middle; average dimensions...

plicae between the lobes. The style is short or absent. The ovary is mostly sessile and has nectary glands. The following species are recognised in the genus...

pairs about the stem. The lower leaves have short petioles; the upper are sessile. Each leaf, 1.5 to 2.5 centimetres (0.59 to 0.98 in) in length, is ovate...

Images Charnia (?) Charnia sp. (?) Sessile frondose organism, tentative assignment. Ernietta E. plateauensis Sessile bag-like frondose organism. Reclassified...

small sessile oak wood, which contains a number of habitats such as a small stream, supporting a diverse set of flora. In a NPWS survey of old sessile oak...

bottom. The larva develops into the hydroid stage of the lifecycle, a tiny sessile polyp called a scyphistoma. The scyphistoma reproduces asexually, producing...

attached to a surface), although the term can also be applied to one that is sessile (normally attached to a surface). Organisms that are attached to a substrate...

diving ability and giving the males superiority in diving over the more sessile females. In addition, females build larger air bells than males, as the...

appear in early spring before the leaves. They are borne in long, drooping, sessile or pedunculate catkins produced from buds formed in the axils of the leaves...

of Ediacaran Australia, showing that it was most likely motile, unlike sessile organisms which have softer margins due to the microbial mat growing on...

littoral and neritic) and deep sea communities. These animals include sessile organisms (e.g. sponges, sea anemones, corals, sea pens, sea lilies and...

species of saprophytic fungus in the family Crepidotaceae with a stipeless sessile finely felted cap. Colour is pure white, cap diameter 10–35 mm and has...

wind (anemophilous). Ears consist of a corncob, or rachis, with rows of sessile spikelets bearing kernels, or caryopses. The corncob and kernels are tightly...

settle. The planulae attach to a benthic substrate and develop into a sessile polyp which releases immature medusae through asexual reproduction called...

tropical and subtropical forests. Amaropostia stiptica produces perennial, sessile, bracket-like fruiting bodies that are hard and woody. The upper surface...

elliptical. The basal ones have short petioles, while the cauline ones are sessile or semiamplexicaul. A solitary inflorescence grows at the top of the branches...

surface is white-tomentose; petiole is 10–30 mm long; lateral leaflets are sessile. Eucryphia moorei, Monga National Park Eucryphia moorei, Monga National...

www.gbif.org. Retrieved 8 June 2021. Taku Komai: 49. A New Remarkable Sessile Ctenophore. Proceedings of the Imperial Academy. 17(6): 216-220. Institute...

P. inserta leaflets are typically 5–30 mm (1⁄4–1+1⁄8 in) long, versus sessile or up to 10 mm in P. quinquefolia. Parthenocissus inserta was first described...

coast Western Australia. It is a spreading shrub with hairy branchlets, sessile, widely elliptic to oblong phyllodes, usually spherical heads of yellow...

Acolium lichens produce apothecia, which are black, and can be either sessile or partially immersed. The true exciple is consistently thick, particularly...

100 cm tall (4" to 40"). The leaves are opposite and usually stalkless (sessile), with a shape ranging from linear to ovate, and a color ranging from pale...

Tetraclita is a genus of sessile barnacles in the family Tetraclitidae. There are more than 20 described species in Tetraclita. These 24 species belong...

Waikalasma is a genus of symmetrical sessile barnacles in the family Waikalasmatidae, the sole genus of the family. There are at least three described...

attach to the substrate or form cysts, so they do not move around (sessile). Most sessile protozoa are able to move around at some stage in the life cycle...

laboratory and in nature. Studies have also suggested that, due to "the sessile nature of plants... [it increases] the relative importance of ecological...

height. The pubescent leaves are alternate with very short or no petiole (sessile), reaching 10 cm (4 in) long to 4 cm (1+1⁄2 in) broad. They are variable...

Western Australia. It has smooth bark that is shed in ribbons, a crown of sessile, juvenile leaves, glaucous flower buds and greenish yellow flowers. Eucalyptus...

4–10 cm long by 1.5–3 cm wide on one or two orders of branches, comprising sessile or short-pedunculate paired heads 1 cm in diameter, each with 6–9 flowers;...

glaucous, sessile, varying in shape from linear-lanceolate to ovate. The inflorescences are terminal cymes, usually reduced to a single semi-sessile 6 millimeters...

Australia. It is a dense, intricately-branched shrub with glabrous branchlets, sessile, needle-shaped phyllodes continuous with the branches, spherical heads...

and 19.7 in) tall. The leaves on the stems of Virginia pepperweed are sessile, linear to lanceolate and get larger as they approach the base. As with...

argument that an olfactorian and tunicate ancestor was motile, and that the sessile nature of ascidians is a derived character arising after appendicularians...

or seven in leaf axils, sometimes sessile or on a short thick peduncle. The individual buds are also usually sessile, sometimes on a pedicel up to 5 mm...

to Australia. Plants in the genus Dampiera are subshrubs or herbs with sessile leaves, flowers with five small sepals and blue, violet or pink, rarely...

Raoulia bryoides is a species of sessile plant from New Zealand. A small flowering plant with gray leaves and yellow to off-white flowers. Raoulia byroides...

refers to: Holdfast (biology), a root-like structure that anchors aquatic sessile organisms to their substrate Holdfast (tool), a tool used to secure a workpiece...

subclass of phyllopharyngeid ciliates. These single-celled organisms are sessile at maturity and usually live on crustaceans as ectosymbionts. Alan Warren...

which minimizes hybridization. The cones are very short-stalked (almost sessile), ovoid, pale pinkish to yellowish buff, and 4–9 centimetres (1+1⁄2–3+1⁄2 in)...

mm in diameter, fully covered with scales). The leaf is formed of three sessile leaflets, obtriangular to obovate-triangular, glabrous, arranged in the...

the south of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with more or less sessile, egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, white flowers...

Japanese volcano barnacle, Kurofujitsubo, is a species of symmetrical sessile barnacle in the family Tetraclitidae. These subspecies belong to the species...

7–11 leaflets, each leaflet lanceolate, 7+1⁄2–15+1⁄4 cm (3–6 in) long and sessile, though the apical leaflets sometimes possess a short petiolule. The leaflets...

Cephalodiscus atlanticus is a sessile hemichordate belonging to the order Cephalodiscida. Bayer F (1962) A new species of Cephalodiscus (Hemichordata:...

subfamily Corispermoideae are all annual plants. Leaves are mostly alternate, sessile or petiole-like attenuate, laminate, scleromorphic. Typical are branched...

southern Western Australia. It is an erect, dioecious shrub with simple, sessile leaves, flowers in cymes of three to five on the ends of branches, the...

to 2+3⁄4 in) long and have a whitish hairy axis. The single flowers are sessile and have a densely hairy flower cover that is colored red when opened....

is represented at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire by a sessile oak tree and a plaque. St Katharine Cree church in the City of London has...

mate.[citation needed] The mimic octopus has also been observed to mimic sessile animals such as small sponges, tube worm tubes, or colonial tunicates....

are prominent to sessile. Astrothelium phlyctaena is somewhat similar in appearance, but that species does not have conspicuous, sessile pseudostromata...

endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a prostrate shrub with sessile, sharply pointed phyllodes, spherical heads of golden yellow flowers and...

or more in diameter, and 4–7 mm in diameter in a few species), sessile or nearly sessile leaves without domatia, and large flowers (6 mm or more in diameter)...

their spines. They feed primarily on algae but also eat slow-moving or sessile animals such as crinoids and sponges. Their predators include sharks, sea...

elliptic-lanceolate, pointed, almost stem-clasping, and usually glabrous. The almost sessile, small white flowers are fragrant, which occur from late winter to spring...

metazoan parasites, including trematodes and parasitic barnacles. A number of sessile animals occasionally settle as epibionts on the exoskeleton of C. pagurus...

organism. Other specimens appear to be more complete and to represent sessile, radially symmetrical hollow bag-like organisms with a soft skin armored...

Cystangium polychromum Cystangium rodwayi Cystangium seminudum Cystangium sessile Cystangium shultziae Cystangium sparsum Cystangium thaxteri Cystangium...

of locomotion, most Sternorrhyncha females are sedentary or completely sessile, attached to their host plants by their thin feeding stylets which cannot...

Astrolepas. In 1854, Charles Darwin reclassified barnacles, and moved all sessile barnacles into the family Balanidae, separating this into the subfamilies...

species of ciliates in the family Spirochonidae. Ultrastructure of the sessile ciliate Cavichona elegans (Chonotricha). I. BP Karadzhan - Non-dividing...

each other and are nearly fused together. The compound eyes are generally sessile (not stalked). In addition, there is a naupliar ocellus (the "third eye")...

strap-like leaves, groups of usually two violet-purple flowers and hairy, sessile pods. Hovea clavata is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to...

3-4-ternate-pinnate-sectate or 2-3-pinnate-sectate, longitudinally shortly petiolate or sessile, ovate or triangular plates, rarely elliptic. Achenium pubescent, very...

Balanus,... Darwin, C. R. (1854). Living Cirripedia, The Balanidæ, (or sessile cirripedes); the Verrucidæ. Vol. 2. London: The Ray Society. p. 33. Carstensen...

in a span of 10 years. C. antarctica lives at the bottom, as a benthic, sessile creature. Complete specimens have large, visible pores and an overall yellowish...

(Laboulbeniales), microscopic classic Greek shield-shaped, stalked or sessile. They can appear solitary or clustered. Their texture can likewise be very...

a small river which has cut a course below soft sandstone cliffs. The Sessile Oak tree was said to be in the top fifty trees in the UK in 2002 and in...

Cephalodiscus dodecalophus is a sessile hemichordate belonging to the order Cephalodiscida. It has erect tubaria. M'Intosh W (1882) Preliminary notice...

abdomen (pleon). The large eyes are compound with nearly 4,000 facets, sessile, and spaced far apart on the head. They have two pairs of antennae. The...

water. A large quantity of material is carried by water currents. Many sessile organisms survive by filtering organic matter carried by watercurrents...

plankton, many meroplankton graduate to the nekton or adopt a benthic (often sessile) lifestyle on the seafloor. The larval stages of benthic invertebrates...

the lower leaves are petiolate and more deeply lobed, the upper leaves sessile and less lobed. The tomentum is thickest on the underside of the leaves...

together. The functional significance of the periplast is unknown, but in sessile organisms, it is thought to aid attachment to the substrate. In planktonic...

relatives of vertebrates. Tunicates are divided into three classes: the sessile Ascidiacea, and the free-swimming Thaliacea and Appendicularia. Some anatomical...

Western Australia. It has tessellated bark on its trunk and branches, sessile, broadly lance-shaped leaves arranged in opposite pairs, flower buds in...

whole area to high forest. Six species have been selected as priority: sessile oak, Scots pine, chestnut, maritime pine, Corsican black pine, and common...

perianth with six divisions, surrounding a three-celled, oblong ovary with a sessile stigma. The flowers are sweetly fragrant. In Europe, it flowers for about...

study of those forms started in the 1950s. The transition from the largely sessile Precambrian biota to the active mobile Cambrian biota occurred early in...

U. maculata, which can be distinguished by its shorter rhizinomorphs, sessile (unstalked) apothecia with a distinctive pattern of sterile fissures, and...

with flared apices (when stranded); aerial leaves (when present) nearly sessile with somewhat cordate bases and blunt apices; inflorescence spikes usually...

Glengarriff Forest is one of the best examples in the country of oceanic sessile oak woodland. It is part of the much larger Glengarriff Harbour & Woodlands...

evergreen perennial, spreading by offsets. It has grey-green, tufted, sessile leaves, 4–10 cm (2–4 in) in diameter, which are often suffused with rose-red...

lateral slits; connectives hairy. Pistil: Ovary superior, one-celled, sessile, ovate-oblong, surrounded at base by long, jointed, pale hairs; styles...

yellow collars around their bases – these persist as papery leaf scars when the leaves are dropped. Each sessile leaflet likewise has a yellowish base....

in Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) and odorous house ants (Tapinoma sessile)". Insectes Sociaux. 56 (4): 413–418. doi:10.1007/s00040-009-0039-8. ISSN 0020-1812...

(vegetative bud central, two flower buds to sides); flowers in early spring, sessile or nearly so, not on leafed shoots; fruit with a groove along one side;...

phase. Both the acetification and the maturation take place in precious sessile oak (Quercus petraea), chestnut, oak, mulberry, and juniper barrels. After...

entrance to the Millport Old Cemetery. The "Clachan Oak" is an ancient sessile oak near Balfron in Stirlingshire. It can still be seen bearing metal bands...

total internal reflections can occur in microscale structures, such as sessile water droplets and biphasic oil-in-water droplets as well as polymer microstructured...

crustaceans simultaneous hermaphroditism can be found in groups that are sessile or live in environments with limited mating opportunities. Most plants...

simple angiosperm leaf, arranged oppositely on the stem. Each leaf is sessile (attaching directly to the plant), and about 35 to 75 mm (1.4 to 3 in)...

from the word for thirst and refers to the cup-like formation made where sessile leaves merge at the stem. Rain water can collect in this receptacle; this...

motile whereas the female gamete cell, the ovum, is generally larger and sessile. The male and female gametes combine to produce the zygote cell. In multicellular...

upland oakwood habitat and support gritstone tree specialists including sessile oak, birch, rowan and holly. They also contain various species of mosses...

apothecia) is a wide, open, saucer-shaped or cup-shaped fruit body. It is sessile and fleshy. The structure of the apothecium chiefly consists of three parts:...

oval-lance or lance-shaped, usually glabrous, arranged alternately, mostly sessile, 11–38 mm (0.43–1.50 in) long, 3.5–11 mm (0.14–0.43 in) wide, apex squared...

length; they are solitary, terminal or rarely lateral, pendulous, and are sessile or on a short peduncle up to 4 mm (3⁄16 in) long. Maturation occurs in...

For over 200 years this tree appears to have been misidentified as a sessile oak (Quercus petraea). In August 2025, Benedict Pollard, founder of Mighty...

and rowan. Other species such as aspen, both downy birch, silver birch, sessile oak, various willow species and a variety of other trees found in Scotland...

restricted area of Western Australia. It is an erect, wispy shrub with sessile, lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base and purple...

birch (Betula pubescens), common wood sorrel (Oxalis acetosella), and sessile oak (Quercus petraea). In upland pastures on calcareous soil it typically...

in a dense rosette, sessile, linear, sheathed, circinate, covered with sessile and pedunculated glands. The caulines are sessile, alternate, the upper...

be either inconspicuous, absent, or caducous. The flowers are fragrant, sessile, and pentamerous, and are arranged in dense axillary spikes. Each flower...

animals such as loriciferans and rotifers are referred to as loricas. For sessile echinoderms (like crinoids, but also many fossile groups such as cystoids...

relatives) to diversify. In the seas, the percentage of animals that were sessile (unable to move about) dropped from 67% to 50%. The extinction's impact...

forests composed predominantly of pedunculate oak (Quercus robur) and sessile oak (Quercus petraea). Remnants of this old-growth woodland are preserved...

halophilic myxobacteria. It produces yellow fruiting bodies, comprising several sessile sporangioles in dense packs. Its type strain is SMP-10 (= JCM 11304(T)=...

The female inflorescence detaches at maturity, a globose seed head of sessile racemes up to 20 cm in diameter which becomes a tumbleweed. Jacobs, S....

and can be spreading. The leaves are simple and flattened, and may be sessile or short petiolate. The phyllotaxis or leaf arrangement is spiral, and...

are attached to the stalk by petioles (many other Nicotiana species have sessile leaves), and its leaves and stems are neither pubescent nor sticky like...

57097°E / 49.24585; 2.57097 Area 43 square kilometres (17 sq mi) Administration Status Dominial Ecology Dominant tree species Sessile oak, European beech...

species. In lower, drier locations the English oak (Quercus robur) and sessile oak (Quercus petraea) occur as well. sycamore trees (Acer pseudoplatanus)...

than the lower level. The characteristic trees at this altitude are the Sessile Oak and the Pedunculate Oak, especially in the west of the massif. In the...

Sterculia foetida Melanthiaceae Trillium erectum, T. foetidissimum, T. sessile, T. stamineum Orchidaceae Satyrium pumilum Masdevallia elephanticeps, M...

axis of the plant, which is upright, bears a set of spirally arranged, sessile leaves having a clearly distinguishable midrib. At the apex of the main...

laterally from peduncles with a short stalk, while the other two groups are sessile. The most dorsal cerata in a group is largest and other cerata decreases...

been described in nature. There are up to 6 male cones per stem that are sessile, very narrowly egg-shaped, pedunculated, coarsely cylindrical, about 30 cm...

Island, California - America) Egregia menziesii (Turn.) Aresch. Hedophyllum sessile  [species] (C.Ag.) Setch (Alaska, California - America) Macrocystis pyrifera...

possessed chelifores, it is likely that it was not restricted to feeding on sessile organisms, which is common in modern representatives. It is also likely...

oblong, up to 8 centimetres (3.1 in) long, usually clasping the stem. The sessile leaves of M. ringens help to distinguish it from its eastern relative,...

into spines. The leaves are generally petiolate or subsessile, rarely sessile. They are frequently inodorous, but some are aromatic or fetid. The foliar...

cymule clusters is between 5–7 mm (3⁄16–1⁄4 in). Each cymule pair is either sessile on the stem or born on a short pedicel. The nutlets are oval to elliptical...

indicate a sessile animal rather than a creeping slug-like one. Eccentrotheca's organophosphatic tube resembled that of phoronids, sessile animals that...

two pairs of eyes. The eyes appear dorsally on the head portion and are sessile. On the posterior margin of the prostomium is a nuchal organ with cilia...

Eutomolasma orbiculatum is a species of symmetrical sessile barnacle in the family Pachylasmatidae. "Eutomolasma orbiculatum". GBIF. Retrieved 2021-09-01...

usually preys on reef scleractinian coral polyps, as well as encrusting sessile invertebrates and dead animals. It climbs onto a section of living coral...

(31 December 2025). "The oldest diverse jellyfish fauna reinterpreted as sessile polypoid dinomischids (stem-group Ctenophora)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology...

of oak – the pedunculate oak and the sessile oak. The pedunculate oak has fruits on long stalks, while the sessile oak has very short stalks, giving the...

linear-lanceolate. The flowers are greenish outside, purplish inside, crowded in sub-sessile axillary cymes.[citation needed] Hemidesmus indicus is used to make beverages...

petiole, such that the mesosoma and metasoma are broadly interconnected (sessile), and the petiole may be obscured from view. Conversely, the petiole may...

Elminiidae is a family of symmetrical, sessile barnacles in the order Balanomorpha. The family includes approximately 5 genera and 12 described species...

content of the nematocyst is injected into the target organism, allowing the sessile cnidarian to capture the immobilized prey. Recently, in two sea anemone...

about 5–30 centimetres (2–12 in) long. They bear bright green, soft, ovate sessile leaves in opposite pairs. The orange, red or blue, radially symmetric flowers...

protected because of the upland habitat dominated by sessile oak. The woodland is dominated by sessile oak, some managed using coppice. Other tree species...

tunicate (sea squirt), in the genus Pycnoclavella. Like all ascidians, these sessile animals are filter feeders. Pycnoclavela diminuta lives in colonies composed...

hyphee; the photobiont is chlorococcoid (a green alga). The apothecia are sessile (sitting directly on the thallus), rounded to irregular, and 0.5–1 mm in...

to the simplicity of the nerve nets. Hydra are generally sedentary or sessile, but do occasionally move quite readily, especially when hunting. They...

centimetres (1–4 in) long and 5–15 millimetres (3⁄16–9⁄16 in) broad, downy and sessile, and arranged opposite or in whorls of three. The flowers are reddish purple...

Verrucidae is a family of asymmetrical sessile barnacles in the order Verrucomorpha. There are about 14 genera and more than 90 described species in Verrucidae...

the free portion linear and usually shallowly curved, flowers borne in sessile spherical heads and terete, crusty pods. Acacia incurva is a low, multi-stemmed...

0.4 in), the anthers 1.0–1.3 mm (0.04–0.05 in) long. Female cones are sessile or on a peduncle up to 5 mm (0.2 in) long, the mature cones shortly cylindrical...

meaning its species have perithecioid ascocarps: spherical or flask-shaped, sessile or partly immersed in the thallus, with a single opening (ostiole) and...

Meaulne-Vitray, Saint-Bonnet-Tronçais, Urçay and Valigny. It is mainly made up of sessile oak. It also contains 130 hectares (320 acres) of ponds and is deemed by...

sticking out. Each fruit has just one seed. In a few species the heads are sessile but in most species they are borne singly on a tall peduncle. Scabiosa...

triangular in cross-section, about 12 mm (0.47 in) long and more or less sessile. The flowers are erect, red to purple, arranged in dense heads on the ends...

tribe Hyoscyameae of the Solanaceae. Flowers pedunculate (not secund, sessile/subsessile as in Hyoscyamus). Calyx lobes subequal or unequal; corolla...

taxa, but their frontal appendages are not arthropodized nor fused, eyes sessile, gill-like structures less prominent, and certainly bore lobopod underneath...

protogynous hermaphrodites that are born female. Some Gnathiidan males are sessile and live with a group of females. Males have a pair of penises, which may...

Banz Aichelberg Holzmaden Dotternhausen Holzmaden Ohmden Isolated Tubes A sessile, marine annelid tube worm of the family Serpulidae. Presumably these specimens...

clustered in groups of 6 on slender peduncles 8–12 mm. long. Ovulate cones sessile or on peduncles up to 4 mm. long, with a receptacle 5–6 mm. long. Seed...

Mycorrhaphium pusillum (Brot.) Maas Geest. 1962) – Europe Mycorrhaphium sessile H.S.Yuan & Y.C.Dai (2009) – China Mycorrhaphium stereoides (Cooke) Maas...

Archaeocyatha (/ˈɑːrkioʊsaɪəθə/, "ancient cups") is a taxon of extinct, sessile, reef-building marine sponges that lived in warm tropical and subtropical...

blades are densely covered by peduncular (stalked) mucilaginous glands and sessile (flat) digestive glands. The peduncular glands consist of a few secretory...

Association, describes the forest as "one of the best examples of oceanic sessile oak woodland in Ireland". Other native flora, including recurved sandwort...

of hydrozoan in the family Rhopalonematidae. This species does not have sessile stage as other hydromedusae. Crossota is spread all over the ocean and...

the cup-like fruiting bodies (apothecia) sit directly on the thallus (sessile), with discs up to 3 mm across and a rim (thalline margin) that is itself...

hairless, with occasional long hairs along the margins and numerous sunken sessile glands. The inflorescence is lax and raceme-like, purplish, up to 4–5 cm...

Iceland, northern Norway, Siberia, Japan, Massachusetts, Alaska, etc. It is sessile and lies at depths of between 14-1900 meters. "WoRMS - World Register of...

annular muscles. Being attached for most of their life, they are semi-sessile, but are capable of detaching and crawl short distances if required. Feeding...

places the group close to the origin of the Bilateria. The early Cambrian sessile frond-like fossil Stromatoveris, from China's Chengjiang lagerstätte and...

occasionally become as tall as 14 to 16 ft (4.3 to 4.9 m). The leaves are sessile and sub-sessile, opposite, ovate, cordate at the base. The flowers are about 1...

February 2019). "Comparison of the Lateral Retention Forces on Sessile, Pendant, and Inverted Sessile Drops". Langmuir. 35 (7): 2871–2877. arXiv:1902.06721. doi:10...

Pyrenulaceae. This species is characterized its bright red, prominent to sessile growths on tree bark in the rainforests of Rondônia, Brazil. What makes...

regeneration of the deciduous oak species Pedunculate Oak (Quercus robur L.) and Sessile Oak (Quercrus petraea Liebl.) – a literature review with focus on wood...

Australia. It is an erect multi-stemmed annual or perennial herb, with sessile linear leaves, and in solitary heads with white bracts. Coronidium waddelliae...

of other small organisms are sometimes eaten, including invertebrates (sessile and benthic species, as well as zooplankton), bacteria and detritus. A...

two to three submarginal cells and two recurrent veins. The abdomen is sessile or has a petiole made up of the sternum and tergum. Classification of Ampulicidae...

Plectoteuthis grandis Owen, 1881; Architeuthis sp.? (grandis); nomen nudum Sessile arm Arm AL: 9 ft (2.7 m); AC: 11 in (28 cm); ASD: ≤0.5 in (1.3 cm); total...

the Alien Mindbenders Skroderiders Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep Sessile, plant-like beings mounted in personal mechanical vehicles ("skrodes")...

the genus Clavelina (the "little bottles"). Like all ascidians, these sessile animals are filter feeders. This species is found in European waters and...

sometimes dioecious shrub with strap-like to linear leaves, and more or less sessile flowers borne singly in leaf axils, male flowers with 15 to 55 stamens...

were also borne on individual stocks, unlike G. biloba which forms seeds sessile. The size of the seeds from specimens has ranged from 10-15 mm in length...

group with over 26 families worldwide. Acotyleans are major predators of sessile marine invertebrates such as all commercial bivalves species (including...

spreading or ascending non-glandular hairs together with conspicuous, sessile, glistening glands. The leaves are pinnately compound and alternately arranged...

alkalinity. It is found in deciduous woods under ash, pedunculate oak, sessile oak, hornbeam or beech trees, typically towards the bottom of any slope...

biota: The role of substrate composition and roughness in structuring sessile, macro- and meiofaunal communities". Marine Pollution Bulletin. 157 111334...

Western Australia. It is a spreading, low-lying to ascending shrub with sessile, linear to narrowly lance-shaped, sometimes toothed leaves, blue to white...

restricted area in the Northern Territory. It is an erect sub-shrub with sessile, linear leaves and yellow flowers arranged singly in leaf axils, with seventeen...

structure, the siphonoglyph. Radial symmetry is especially suitable for sessile animals such as the sea anemone, floating animals such as jellyfish, and...

the Western Ghats of India and Sri Lanka. Borne solitarily and axillary. Sessile, one-seeded clustered berry. rain forest understory. Verspagen, N.; Erkens...

parts arranged in five), with female flowers lacking petals. The stigma is sessile and disc-shaped, and the ovaries are cylindrical. The fruits are cylindrical...

important species of trees found in the forests of the commune are beech, sessile oak, pedunculate oak, Hungarian oak, Turkey oak, hornbeam, black locust...

Society for the Protection of Birds. Tree species within Gelt Woods include sessile oak and beech has also been introduced here. Woodland herbs include bilberry...

Asteraceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with sessile, linear, variably-sized leaves, and heads of creamy-white to white flowers...

pauciflorum (Wight ex C.B.Clarke) Kuntze Eugenioides pendulum Kuntze Eugenioides sessile (C.B.Clarke) Kuntze Symplocos albifrons Brand Symplocos atrata Brand Symplocos...

and projecting beyond the leaves. Female plants have their flowers in sessile clusters of 1–4 at the nodes of the branches, or on short (4 mm) pedicels...

and is dark green in colour. The leaves' bases may have a petiole or be sessile. The flowers open from July to September and are purple in colour. They...

slightly toothed and arranged in a rosette, while the upper leaves are sessile and narrow lanceolate. The hermaphrodite flowers are clustered in a racemose...

artificial selection. sessile 1.  Generally, lacking motility or means of self-locomotion; immobile or incapable of movement. Sessile organisms may move...

Magnolia oblonga can grow up to 15 centimeters long. The ripe carpels are sessile, lax, obovoid, about 20 x 12 millimeters, woody, lenticellate, beaked,...

body of the cochineal from heat, cold, and predators. Adult females are sessile and form colonies of up to a few thousand individuals of mixed age, creating...

browsers, and megafaunal croppers. They typically feed on slow-moving or sessile animals, such as molluscs, echinoderms, and sea anemones. Like the true...

small-leafed lime and rarely oak or beech, grown among pedunculate or sessile oak, ash or beech standards. In wet areas alder and willows were used....

leaves are arranged in four rows along the length of the stems. They are sessile, the base of the leaves attach directly to the main stem rather than by...

individually, odd-pinnately compound. The leaflets, numbering 3–6 pairs, are sessile, ovate to rounded, with unevenly and coarsely toothed margins. They reach...

tube worm in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A tubeworm is any worm-like sessile invertebrate that anchors its tail to an underwater surface and secretes...

m 328 cm 1098 common beech 20 m 328 cm 1099 2 common beeches 26 m 260 and 290 cm 1100 sessile oak 25 m 356 cm 1101 glacial erratic 1,30 m 672 cm 1133...

2018, French President Emmanuel Macron presented to the United States a sessile oak sapling from Belleau Wood as part of his state visit. Joe Biden visited...

the shell attains 37.5 mm. Coralliophila australis is predator that eats sessile prey. This marine species occurs off the Austral Islands, French Polynesia...

south-west of Western Australia. It is a glabrous, glaucous subshrub with sessile, toothed, circular to elliptic leaves, blue flowers, and wrinkled fruit...

sessile peritrichs, for instance, one sexual partner (the microconjugant) is small and mobile, while the other (macroconjugant) is large and sessile....

ISBN 978-0-12-374144-8. Rothschild, Miriam (1992). "Neosomy in fleas, and the sessile lifestyle". Journal of Zoology. 226 (4). London: 613–629. doi:10.1111/j...

hairless, the bracts linear and later deciduous. The flowers are sessile, almost sessile or stand on flower stalks up to 1.5 mm long. Blooming constantly...

while a lower order of animals might wiggle or crawl, or like oysters were sessile, attached to the sea-bed. All, however, share the senses of touch and taste...

each entire or with one to three teeth. Upper leaves are more or less sessile and less lobed than lower. The stalk of the inflorescence is 20–60 millimetres...

105.0 ft). They feed primarily on algae, but will occasionally consume sessile invertebrates (including crustaceans, worms, and molluscs). They are considered...

whorls of three to four leaves occur. The leaves lack stipules and can be sessile or shortly petiolar, though long petioles exist in sections Adenosepalum...

centimeters (5.12 to 9.84 by 0.98 to 3.94 in) and are glandular fluffy, sessile, elliptical, slightly succulent, narrow obovate, and entire or serrated...

collects food particles as they drift past. Although usually considered sessile, the Venus flytrap sea anemone sometimes moves, particularly as a juvenile...

the genus usually have leaves in a rosette at the base of the plant or sessile stem leaves, and disc-like compounds heads of bisexual, tube-shaped yellowish...

in May; the male flowers are pendulous catkins. The female flowers are sessile, growing near the tips of new shoots, producing acorns 1.2–2.3 cm long...

grow many stems. The stems lack branches below the inflorescence. The sessile leaves have an obtuse base and a rounded tip. The pale yellow flowers are...

is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub, with sessile, narrowly elliptic, linear or tapered phyllodes, spherical heads of golden...

with decumbent or erect stems. The leaves are opposite or whorled, and sessile. The leaf blade is regular, round to linear, and the venation is palmate...

frond characterised by a repetitive pattern of self-similar branches and a sessile benthic lifestyle. Fossils are typically preserved as moulds and casts...

south-west of Western Australia. It is a spreading, glabrous shrub with sessile, egg-shaped to narrowly elliptic leaves with toothed edges, spikes of blue...

sometimes cleft into narrow lobes. The axils of the upper leaves often have sessile clusters of ovoid bulbils, capable of giving rise to new plants. The root...

norvegicus is the host to a number of parasites and symbionts. A number of sessile organisms attach to the exoskeleton of N. norvegicus, including the barnacle...

tripinnate, and borne on petioles, while the upper leaves are nearly sessile to sessile. The stems are split at the caudex and are up to 60 centimeters tall...

belonging to the family Euglenaceae. It has two phases: a motile phase and a sessile phase, where it is found attached to other freshwater organisms. The genus...

in its body tissue. Although larval clams are planktonic, they become sessile in adulthood. The creature's mantle tissues act as a habitat for the symbiotic...

Australia. It is a slender, erect to spreading shrub with more or less sessile, linear leaves pressed against the stem, and white and yellow, daisy-like...

compact shrub with hairy stems, sessile, lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and sessile white flowers with maroon streaks...

medusae form, which is commonly known as the "bell" form. Polyp forms are sessile as adults, with a single opening (the mouth/anus) to the digestive cavity...

all mobile animals, second in the entire animal kingdom only to certain sessile barnacles. Penis elongation in the greater hooked squid may result in a...

exserted, with 4–6 sessile to short-stalked (less than 1 mm) microsporangia. Seed cones usually 2 at node, ovoid, 6–10 mm, sessile or on short, scaly...

availability that results from decomposition; plants and other non-mobile (sessile) autotrophs cannot travel to seek out nutrients, and most cannot digest...

M.; Echigo, T.; Maemoku, H.; Ishiyama, T.; Nagai, A. (2008). "Uplifted sessile assemblages on the southern coast of the Kii Peninsula, related to historical...

cross-section, with a prominent wing on each corner. The juvenile leaves are sessile, arranged in opposite pairs, elliptic to egg-shaped, the lower surface...

upper surface. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branches and are sessile, surrounded by a cluster of up to six leaves. The sepals are 5.3–10.5 mm...

50 cm (20 in) or more in length. They carry about 50 white or pale pink sessile flowers. The fleshy fruit contains a single seed and measures about 6 cm...

Ediacaran period (635-541 mya) discovered in Newfoundland, Canada. It is a sessile, benthic marine organism. resembling modern sea whips. Hadrynichorde specimens...

the Western Pacific and Indian Ocean. Like all adult sponges, they are sessile and do not move once attached to a rock. They can be found at depths between...

The Birnam Oak is an example of Sessile oak (Quercus petraea) at Birnam, Perth and Kinross, Scotland (grid reference NO032421). Sometimes known as Macbeth's...

scallop. Although the small juveniles are free-swimming, they soon become sessile, and are cemented to the substrate. These scallops occur in the eastern...

long and glaucous. The flowers are arranged in small clusters and almost sessile in leaf axils with broad bracts and bracteoles. The petals are green and...

axillary panicles, (2)4–7 cm in length, and densely scabridulous. Flowers are sessile or nearly so, with flower buds that are turbinate to subglobose, excluding...

"Studies in the Botany of the Southeastern United States.-Ix. I. The Sessile-Flowered Trillia of the Southern States." Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical...

intermediate and adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and sessile, cup-shaped to hemispherical fruit. Eucalyptus kitsoniana is a tree or...

oval shaped and arranged oppositely along the branches. The leaves are sessile or subsessile. The flowers are greenish-white and borne in verticils in...

Cephalodiscus levinsoni is a sessile hemichordate belonging to the order Cephalodiscida. Harmer S (1905) The Pterobranchia of the Siboga Expedition. Siboga...

occur in clumps or short chains. The apothecia, or fruiting bodies, are sessile and flat, with a yellowish-beige disc that is usually plane but may be...

Bavaria, Germany 600-1,000 Possibly the oldest tree in Germany. Clachan Oak Sessile oak (Quercus petraea) Balfron, Scotland 500–600 Possibly Stirlingshire's...

cross-section, with a prominent wing on each corner. The juvenile leaves are sessile, arranged in opposite pairs, elliptic to egg-shaped, the lower surface...

are heterotrophic and motile (although some have secondarily adopted a sessile lifestyle). Most animals have bodies differentiated into separate tissues...

Notobalanus flosculus is a species of sessile barnacle found off southwestern South America. Notobalanus flosculus was first scientifically described...

known in South Africa as "red bait" (or "rooiaas" in Afrikaans), is a sessile ascidian, or sea squirt, that lives in coastal waters attached to rocks...

to teliospores from which laterally septate basidia emerge, producing sessile basidiospores. Species occur worldwide and can be isolated from air, water...

Coniarthonia minima has no visible thallus. The fruiting bodies (apothecia) are sessile (resting on the substrate without a stalk), convex, and lack a distinct...

North Atlantic, especially near Nova Scotia, that feed on both mobile and sessile prey. They use mucus to glide across the bottom of the ocean as their primary...

Like all clovers, its leaves are trifoliate, divided into three slender, sessile leaflets 1–2 cm (1⁄2–3⁄4 in) long and 3–5 millimetres (1⁄8–1⁄4 in) broad...

Australia. It is a dioecious shrub with many stems at the base, simple, sessile, narrowly linear leaves, flowers arranged singly, and spherical or oval...

usually found along exposed coasts and provide habitat for a wide range of sessile animals (e.g. mussels, starfish, barnacles) and various kinds of seaweeds...

endemic Helichrysum scitulum Hilliard & B.L.Burtt, endemic Helichrysum sessile DC. endemic Helichrysum sessilioides Hilliard, indigenous Helichrysum setosum...

Lechenaultia are glabrous shrubs or herbs with needle-shaped leaves, more or less sessile flowers with five sepals and five blue, white, or yellow and red petals...

inflorescences are borne on striking pink bracts with a spiny, toothed margin. The sessile, hermaphroditic, three-petaled flowers are about 3.5 cm (1 in) long. The...

species have fruit bodies that are mostly perennial, with forms ranging from sessile to effused-reflexed (partially crust-like and partially pileate). Fruit...

underneath. Mature leaves are glabrous. The petioles are 1 cm long. Catkins are sessile and usually bracteate. S. sericea blooms in May and fruits in June. Wikimedia...

irregular in shape. These apothecia can be scattered or densely packed and are sessile, meaning they sit directly on the thallus without a stalk. The thalline...

which thinned out towards the margins. Lydonia was most likely either a sessile benthic or semi-infaunal organism in life, being covered by microbial matground...

entire, smooth, and sessile; they generally extending in condensed clusters of inflorescence, consisting of a pair of sessile cymes arranged around...

mosses growing over alkaline surfaces. The genus is distinguished by its sessile apothecia (fruiting bodies) that range from light ochre to black, eight-spored...

cylindrical-angular in cross section. Internodes are up to 5 cm long. Leaves are sessile and coriaceous in texture. The lamina may be narrowly obovate to elliptic...

"forests". Some specimens have been observed to be non-sessile, being fragments originating from sessile stands which have broken free and drift above the...

with such a stem are called pedicellate, while those without are called sessile. In the angiosperms, the flowers are arranged on a flower stem as an inflorescence...

when it matures as a copepodid larva to more than 40 mm (1+1⁄2 in) as a sessile adult. Lernaeocera branchialis is ectoparasitic, which means it is a parasite...

narrowly egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, and sessile flowers borne singly or in pairs in leaf axils. Bertya riparia is a monoecious...

with sticky stems covered with simple and glandular hairs. The leaves are sessile, occasionally almost stem-clasping, egg-shaped, toothed, 21–68 mm (0.83–2...

0–15.0 mm long and 2.5–13.9 mm wide and petiolate (lower bracts only) or sessile. The flowers are borne on a pedicel that is up to 32.9 mm long and densely...

base, 2–12 mm (0.079–0.472 in) long, 0.5–1.2 mm (0.020–0.047 in) wide and sessile or on a short petiole. The flowers are borne singly in leaf axils on a...

features include petrifying water flows (tufa springs and seeps) and "old sessile oak woods", along with alluvial forest. The woodland hosts "particularly...

hairless (glabrous) stems, and leaves with an oval shape. The leaves are sessile (petiole less than 1 mm long) and the corolla has a white or yellow eye...

tropical and subtropical South America and Mexico. This insect, a primarily sessile parasite, lives on cacti from the genus Opuntia, feeding on moisture and...

acorns mature in about 18 months after pollination; solitary or in pairs, sessile or stalked; nut oblong-ovoid with broad flat base, full, with acute apex...

produce short shoots and rosettes near the base of the stem. Leaves are sessile or shortly petiolate and coriaceous in texture. The lamina is lanceolate...

species grows on the bark of decaying hardwood trees. Its fruiting body is sessile, and ranges from 1 to 5 centimetres (1⁄2 to 2 in) wide. The surface of...

to brownish bark. Young plants and coppice regrowth have more or less sessile, linear to narrow elliptical leaves that are 40–70 mm (1.6–2.8 in) long...