Terms Used in These Descriptions
- acuminate
- apex tapering gradually to a protracted point, sides somewhat concave
- cordate
- base broad and notched at the base; heart-shaped
- cunate (cuneate)
- base wedge-shaped, narrowly triangular
- elliptic
- oblong in outline, widest at the center
- linear
- long and narrow with the sides more or less parallel
- mucronate
- leaf ending suddenly with a stiff spiny tip or spur
- obovate
- like ovate but attached at the narrower end
- ovate
- egg shaped, attached at wider end
- plicate
- folded back and forth longitudinally like a fan, pleated