A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

erectus,-a,-um (part.A): 'set up, upright; “upright, perpendicular to the ground or its attachment” (Jackson); (fungi) “upright and straight up, not curved up” (S&D) [> L. erigo,-rexi-rectum 3. to raise or set up, to erect to build, construct, erect; used by Cicero rather than arrectus,-a,-um (part.A), q.v. (Lewis & Short)]; see ‘erect;’

NOTE: rectus,-a,-um (part.A), q.v., indicates 'straight,' not bent or crooked, whereas erectus suggests a structure is 'upright' as in perpendicular, as in a scape, not reclining or aslant.

- scapus erectus, rectus vel flexuosus, scape upright, straight or flexuous.

- racemus terminalis, erectus, coloratus, nitens (Swartz), the raceme terminal, erect, colored, shining.

- stamina petalis isomera v. saepe numero dupla, rarius oo, perigyna v. epigyna, nunc hypogyna, erecta v. patentia (B&H), petals the same [number of parts with] the petals or double in number, very rarely [indefinite], perigynous or epigynous, sometimes hypogynous, erect or spreading. [this might mean ‘upright’].

- [Eupatorium] squamis lineari-lanceolatis, erectis, inaequalibus (Linn.), with the scales linear-lanceolate, upright, unequal.

- [moss] folia e basi erecta amplexicaulia patenti-incurva (C. Muell.), the leaves straight up from the base, clasping the stem, spreading-incurved.

- [moss] frons autem est vel erecta ut in Fissidente polypodioide, vel incurvata ut in Fissidente Bryoide, vel procumbens ut in Fissidente denticulato (Brid.), the frond [i.e. leaf] is either erect, as in Fissidens polypodioides, or incurved as in Fissidens Bryoides, or procumbent as in Fissidens denticulatus.

- [moss] Truncus igitur nobis erit caulis utplurimum erectus, primo simplicissimus, saepius tamen aetate basi vel apice innovans, fructumque in caulis primarii vel ramorum apice proferens. Erectus est autem truncus, sive proprio suo robore, ubi planta solitarie vivit, ut Polytrichum undulatum, sive mutua sociorum ope in eis quae gregatim vitam degunt ut Dicranum purpureum (Brid.), the trunk, then, by us [i.e. me] will nearly always be an erect [i.e. straight-up] stem, in the beginning completely simple [i.e. unbranched], yet more often, with age, innovating at the base or the apex, and producing fruits at the apex of the primary stem or branches. However, ‘erect’ is a trunk, either by its own proper vigor [i.e. physical strength], when the plant lives solitarily, as Polytrichum undulatum, or by the mutual support of its associates among those which spend their lives gregariously. [NOTE: opp. to obliquus and prostratus].

erecto-patens,-entis (part.B): erecto-patent, “between spreading and erect” (Jackson); spreading at an angle of about 45*;

- antherae erecto-patentes (Linn.), the anthers erect-spreading.