leaf apex
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0020137
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- narrow: leaf lamina apex
- narrow: phyllid apex
- exact: ápice de la hoja (Spanish)
- exact: 葉先 (Japanese)
- Definition
- A phyllome apex (PO:0025139) that is part of a leaf (PO:0025034). [source: POC:Ramona_Walls, UMSL:fz]
- Comment
- It is not precisely defined how far toward the base from the tip a leaf apex extends. For the apical most portion of a leaf, use the term leaf tip. If you are annotating to this term, please add an additional annotation to vascular leaf (PO:0009025) or non-vascular leaf (PO:0025075), depending on the species. All annotations for angiosperms, gymnosperms, and pteridophytes should go to vascular leaf and all annotations for bryophytes should go to non-vascular leaf.
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