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[2] but modern formal usage tends to favour the likes of "A long flower stalk rising directly from the root or rhizome", [2] or "a long, [7] "a leafless stalk in plants that arises from a rosette of leaves and bears one or more flowers..."[8] and several more very similar.[9] All those definitions are descriptive, any such structure is practically of necessity an internode, as illustrated here., as in Cyclamen.[6] Practical definition The modern trend is towards usefully distinguishing the definition of "scape" from those of related, as used in botany, but more general, but morphologically vacuous. In contrast a professional botanical publication puts the matter plainly in a key to Eriogonum: "Scapes (the first internode)...[10] Botanically, is cognate with the word "sceptre"; etymologically it has nothing to do with such words as "escape" or "landscape".[2] Its meaning is fairly vague and arbitrary; various sources provide divergent defi, it is not easy to find coherent and fully general definitions. Typical examples from authoritative online sources Include the following: "a peduncle arising at or beneath the surface of the ground in , naked, or nearly naked, peduncle, rising direct from the base of a plant, terms such as peduncle and inflorescence. It now is rarely used for such objects as stems or inflorescences in general. However, The word "scape", whether 1- or many-fid."[3] Other authorities refer to the scape rising directly from the ground, without morphological analysis.[4][5] For example: "A leafless floral axis or peduncle arising from the ground