vascular leaf
Term Information
- Accession
- PO:0009025
- Aspect
- plant anatomy
- Synonyms
- related: crozier
- related: macrophyll
- related: megaphyll
- narrow: ascidia
- narrow: ascidium
- narrow: fiddlehead
- narrow: frond
- narrow: needle-like leaf
- narrow: pitcher
- narrow: pitcher blade
- narrow: pitcher-blade
- narrow: scale-like leaf
- narrow: sterile frond
- narrow: trophophyll
- exact: 維管束のある葉, または維管束植物の葉 (Japanese)
- exact: foliage leaf
- exact: hoja vascular (Spanish)
- exact: leaf, vascular
- exact: vascular leaves
- Definition
- A leaf (PO:0025034) in a vascular plant. [source: POC:curators]
- Comment
- Has vascular tissue. From APweb Glossary: In angiosperms, commonly thought of as one of the three basic parts of the seed plant body, a structure usually of determinate growth, without secondary thickening, and of superficial origin, often flattened and photosynthetic in part, and in the axil of which is found a bud. Occurs in the sporophytic phase of a plant life cycle.
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