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What does cespitose mean?

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Adjective
  1. (botany) Having the form of a piece of turf, i.e. many stems from one rootstock or from many entangled rootstocks or roots.
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Cspitose, or cespitose, growing in turf-like patches or tufts.
I have never seen it cespitose, never more than two specimens growing near each other.
Carex haydenii differs by having ladder-fibrillose proximal leaf sheaths, a densely cespitose habit, mostly veinless spotted perigynia, and pistillate spikes 1-5 cm long.
The stem is subequal, cespitose, reticulate to the base, pulverulent below.

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