References SIMPLE LEAF - a leaf which is not divided into leaflets. SPECIES - a population of genetically closely related organisms capable of interbreeding; a species can comprise several subspecies and other finer groupings of ever more genetically similar organisms. Similar species are grouped into genera and then into families.
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STRIATE - with parallel, longitudinal lines or ridges. SUCCULENT - thick and fleshy; often used to describe leaves. TENDRIL - leaf, leaf part or stem modified to be a slender branched or unbranched structure used by many climbing plants for attachment to a support, usually by twining around it. TERETE - cylindrical, circular in cross- section. TERRESTRIAL - growing in the ground. TOMENTOSE - covered with shortish cottony hairs, more or less felted together. TRIFOLIOLATE - bearing leaflets of a compound leaf in threes. TUBER - swollen portion of an underground stem, containing food reserves. UMBEL - an inflorescence where all pedicels arise from the one point (on top of the peduncle). UNDULATE - wavy, often a reference to leaf margins. VALVE - a segment of a fruit which opens to allow seed dispersal. VENATION - an arrangement of veins within a leaf. WHORL - an arrangement of three or more leaves, stems, flowers in a circle around a stem at a node.
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