rosulate

Adjective

1. Arranged in small rose-like clusters.
   • It appears to claim a very close relationship to the preceding species, differing chiefly in the tiny leaves being rather more rosulate than caudiculate, and in not being adpressed, but rather the reverse; its petals,...
   • In young plants, the leaves are often more or less arranged in four vertical ranks, but become more rosulate with age. - 1950, Gilbert Westacott Reynolds, The Aloes of South Africa, page 494:
   • […]differs from the typical form in having smaller, shorter more rosulate milky-green leaves, shorter sheaths, greenish-yellow buds, straighter flowers and narrower more or less unicoloured yellowish racemes. - 1971,...