leaf sheath
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0020104
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- exact: 葉鞘 (Japanese)
- exact: vaina de la hoja (Spanish)
- Definition
- A tubular portion of the leaf surrounding the stem, as in the Poaceae. [source: GR:Pankaj_Jaiswal]
- Comment
- 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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