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It is known that foliaceous stipules are used like leaves to make energy for the plants. Sometimes stipules protect the next leaf or bud as it grows in then falls off after the leaf unfolds, as with Tulip Poplars. [4] Stipules can be used as climbing tendrils by climbing plants. Spiny stipules can be used to help protect the plant from animals. [8]
A multicellular, glandular hair that usually produces a mucilaginous substance and is located on sepal s, stipules, or petioles, or on nearby parts of stem s; commonly found on plants in the order Gentianales. columella In flowering plants, the central axis of the cone or fruit, e.g. in Callitris. column 1.
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In flowering plants, the term is often used in reference to a stalk that sometimes supports a flower's ovary. In orchids , the stipe or caudicle is the stalk-like support of the pollinia . It is a non-viscid band or strap connecting the pollinia with the viscidium (the viscid part of the rostellum or beak).
Prickles on a blackberry branch. In plant morphology, thorns, spines, and prickles, and in general spinose structures (sometimes called spinose teeth or spinose apical processes), are hard, rigid extensions or modifications of leaves, roots, stems, or buds with sharp, stiff ends, and generally serve the same function: physically defending plants against herbivory.
Leaves of most plants include a flat structure called the blade or lamina supported by a network of veins, a petiole and a leaf base; [1] but not all leaves are flat, some are cylindrical. [ citation needed ] Leaves may be simple, with a single leaf blade, or compound, with several leaflets .
Plant structures or organs fulfil specific functions, and those functions determine the structures that perform them. Among terrestrial (land) plants, the vascular and non-vascular plants (Bryophytes) evolved independently in terms of their adaptation to terrestrial life and are treated separately here (see Bryophytes). [6]
Marcescent leaves may protect some species from water stress or temperature stress. For example, in tropical alpine environments a wide variety of plants in different plant families and different parts of the world have evolved a growth form known as the caulescent rosette, characterized by evergreen rosettes growing above marcescent leaves.