margins and apices
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This is a document enumerating the different types of plant leaf apices and margins with the corresponding plant example with its scientific name and pictures. Bio 103: Fundamentals in Plant Biology.TRANSCRIPT
Shaina Mavreen D. Villaroza Bio 103 Section: B
Submitted to: Ma’am Christina Barazona
Leaf Margins Plant Example
a.) Ciliate
Pinebarrens Peanut-grass (Amphicarpum amphicarpon)
b.) Cleft
Cleft Violet (Viola palmata)
c.) Crenate
Dead Nettle (Lamium incisum)
d.) Crenulate
Dogwood (Pomaderris apetala)
e.) Dentate
American Beech (Fagus grandifolia)
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f.) Denticulate
Koreanspice Viburnum (Viburnum carlesii)
g.) Entire
Honeysuckle (Lonicera implexa)
h.) Incised
Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum)
i.) Involute
Blue Princess Meserve Holly (Ilex meserveae)
j.) Lacerate
Northern Wolfsbane (Aconitum lycoctonum)
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k.) Laciniate
Soft Speargrass (Aciphylla montana)
l.) Lobed
Oak (Quercus)
m.) Pinnatified
Fruit Salad Plant (Monstera deliciosa)
n.) Revolute
Texas Persimmon (Diospyros texana)
o.) Serrate
Hop (Humulus lupulus)
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p.) Doubly Serrate
Hazel (Corylus avellana)
q.) Serrulate
Carnival Bush (Ochna serrulata)
r.) Sinuate
Common Geranium (Pelargonium hortorum)
Leaf Apices Plant Example
a.) Broadly Acuminate
Eastern Bluestar (Amsonia tabernaemontana)
b.) Narrowly Acuminate
Ozark Bluestar (Amsonia illustris)
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c.) Abruptly Acuminate
Slippery Elm (Ulmus rubra)
d.) Broadly Acute
Wooly Croton (Croton capitatus)
e.) Narrowly Acute
Northern Green Orchid (Platanthera flava)
f.) Apiculate
Camellia (Camellia sinensis)
g.) Aristate
Wild Cherry (Prunus avium)
h.) Caudate
Bo Tree (Ficus religiosa)
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i.) Cuspidate
Kawakawa (Macropiper excelsum)
j.) Emarginate
Wood Spurge (Euphorbia commutata)
k.) Mucronate
Clasping Milkweed (Asclepias amplexicaulis)
l.) Obtuse
Field Bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis)
m.) Retuse
Carrotwood (Cupaniopsis anacardioides)
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