scale leaf
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0006003
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- related: cataphyll
- exact: catáfila en escama (Spanish)
- exact: 鱗片葉 (Japanese)
- Definition
- A phyllome that is reduced in size relative to a vascular leaf on the same plant and is often associated with a perennating or dormant bud or a vegetatively propagating organ such as a rhizome. [source: ISBN:0080374913]
- Comment
- May be photosynthetic or non-photosynthetic. Some species have vascular leaves that are scale-like (such as Juniperus, Thuja, and Chamaecyparis). Annotations for scale-like leaves should go under vascular leaf (PO:0009025), not scale leaf.
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