shape margin Flashcards
Long and very narrow like a blade of grass
Linear
Having an elongated form with slightly parallel sides, roughly rectangular.
Oblong
Long, wider in the middle, shaped like a lance tip.
Lanceolate
Much longer than wide and with the widest portion near the tip, reversed lanceolate.
Oblanceolate
Awl-shaped with a tapering point
Subulate
Spoon-shaped; having a broad flat end which tapers to the base
Spathulate
Oval, egg-shaped, with a tapering point and the widest portion near the petiole.
Ovate
Teardrop-shaped, stem attaches to the tapering end; reversed ovate.
obovate
Oval, with a short or no point.
Elliptical
Diamond-shaped.
Rhomboid
Shaped like Greek letter Delta, triangular, stem attaches to side
Deltoid
Circular.
Orbicular
Shaped like a kidney: an oval with an inward curve on one side.
Reniform
Heart-shaped, with the petiole or stem attached to the notch.
Cordate
Heart-shaped, stem attaches at the tapering end.
Obcordate
Slender and pointed, needle-like
Acicular
Sickle-shaped.
Falcate
Shaped like a lyre, pinnately lobed leaf with an enlarged terminal lobe and smaller lateral lobes.
Lyrate
Having lobes with incisions that extend less than half-way toward the midrib.
Pinnatifid
Having lobes with incisions that extend almost, or up to midrib.
Pinnatisect
Having lobes with incisions that extend almost up, but not quite to the petiole.
Palmatisect
Palm-shaped, having lobes with incisions that extend less than half-way toward the petiole
Palmatifid
Shaped like a sword, long and narrow with a sharp pointed tip.
Ensiform
Triangular, wedge-shaped, stem attaches to point.
Cuneate
With an odd number of leaflets, pinnate with a terminal leaflet (the opposite of paripinnate)
Imparipinnate
Pinnate with an even number of leaflets, lacking a terminal leaflet (the opposite of imparipinnate)
paripinnate
The leaflets are themselves pinnately-compound; twice pinnate
Bipinnate
Pinnately compound in which each leaflet is itself bipinnate
Tripinnate
With three leaflets
Trifoliolate
Consisting of leaflets all radiating from one point
Palmate (degitate)