different between phyllotaxies vs phyllotaxis

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phyllotaxies

phyllo- +? taxis

phyllotaxis (usually uncountable, plural phyllotaxes)

(botany) The arrangement of leaves on a stem, or the mathematical principles governing such arrangement.
- 1985, John Fowles, A Maggot:
  Yet his Lordship would find this rate of proportion […] likewise in all plants, in the disposition of their leaves, for which ordering he would make a name, that is, from the Greek, phyllotaxis.

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