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  2. Glossary of leaf morphology - Wikipedia

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    Chart illustrating leaf morphology terms. The following terms are used to describe leaf morphology in the description and taxonomy of plants. Leaves may be simple (that is, the leaf blade or 'lamina' is undivided) or compound (that is, the leaf blade is divided into two or more leaflets).

  3. Plant morphology - Wikipedia

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    The homology of leaves is an easy conclusion to make. The plant morphologist goes further, and discovers that the spines of cactus also share the same basic structure and development as leaves in other plants, and therefore cactus spines are homologous to leaves as well. This aspect of plant morphology overlaps with the study of plant evolution ...

  4. Glossary of plant morphology - Wikipedia

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    Pseudautoicous – dwarf male plants growing on living leaves of female plants. Pseudomonoicous – Pseudoperianth – an involucre that resembles a perianth, but is made of thallus tissue, and usually forms after the sporophyte develops. Rhizautoicous – male inflorescence attached to the female stem by rhizoids.

  5. Leaf - Wikipedia

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    A leaf (pl.: leaves) is a principal appendage of the stem of a vascular plant, [1] usually borne laterally above ground and specialized for photosynthesis.Leaves are collectively called foliage, as in "autumn foliage", [2] [3] while the leaves, stem, flower, and fruit collectively form the shoot system. [4]

  6. Glossary of botanical terms - Wikipedia

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    Terms of plant morphology are included here as well as at the more specific Glossary of plant morphology and Glossary of leaf morphology. For other related terms, see Glossary of phytopathology , Glossary of lichen terms , and List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names .

  7. Thorns, spines, and prickles - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Category:Plant morphology - Wikipedia

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    Plant morphology is the field in botany that studies the diversity in forms, with the naked eye or slight optical magnification. This is opposed to plant anatomy (see Category:Plant anatomy ) that needs to cut into plants to be able to study its subject, usually with a microscope.

  9. Floral morphology - Wikipedia

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    In botany, floral morphology is the study of the diversity of forms and structures presented by the flower, which, by definition, is a branch of limited growth that bears the modified leaves responsible for reproduction and protection of the gametes, called floral pieces.