a. [f. L. caul-is stalk, after arborescent, etc.] Acquiring or growing to a stem or stalk; spec. in Bot. having an obvious stem growing above the ground.
1794. Martyn, Rousseau’s Bot., xxvi. 405. Dog Violet is one of the caulescent or stalky kind.
1830. Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot., 154. Half-shrubby caulescent plants.
1846. Dana, Zooph. (1848), 494. Caulescent ramose, subdichotomous and lobate.
1881. Baker, in Jrnl. Linn. Soc., XVIII. 28. A bulbous caulescent herb.
