| Name | Structure/ Category | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Multiple fruit | [Fruits] {type} | A fruit formed from several flowers (and associated parts) more or less coalesced into a single structure with a common axis, as a mulberry (Morus) or pineapple (Ananas comosus). |
| Mycorrhiza | the symbiotic association of the mycelium of a fungus (as various basidiomycetes and ascomycetes) with the roots of a seed plant (as various conifers, beeches, heaths, and orchids) in which the hyphae form an interwoven mass investing the root tips or penetrate the parenchyma of the root | |
| Naked | [Bud scales] {type} | With no scales covering the immature shoot. |
| Nearly sessile | [Flowers, Leaflets, Leaves, Seed cones] {form of attachment} | With a very short, somewhat indistinct stalk. (Compare with petiolate, petioulate, sessile and stalked.) |
| Nearly symmetric | [Seed cones] {symmetry} | Not fully symmetric, but divisible into nearly equal halves along one or more planes. |
| Nectar | A sugary, sticky fluid secreted by many plants. | |
| Nectary-bearing | [Petioles, Rachises] {special surface features} | Bearing a glandular structure that secretes nectar [modified from W&K, p. 598 (see nectary)], often appearing as a protuberance, scale or pit. |
| Needle-like | [Leaves] {general form} | With leaves that are more or less needle-shaped, and usually evergreen; they may be flattened as in hemlocks (Tsuga) or more rounded as in pines (Pinus). |
| Neuter | having no generative organs | |
| Node | The portion of a stem where leaves and/or branches arise; often recognizable by the presence of one or more buds. |
