Leaf Shapes List From Palmate To Subulate

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Botanical name	English name	Description
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Palmate	Palm
	This Refers To the Compound leaf	The leaves are digitally lobed with each lobe arising from a common point. Like the palm of the hand.
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Palmate	Palm
	This Refers To the Venation	The venation start from a common point like the palm of the hand.
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Palmately lobed	Hand like
	This Refers To the Leaf edges	The leaves are lobed and look like the palm of the hand. They can be three or more lobes toeach leaf.
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Parallel	Parallel
	This Refers To the Venation	The venation run parallel along the length of the leaf as in most monocotlydon plants.
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Paripinnate	Feathered
	This Refers To the Compound leaf	The leaves are pinnate with even numbers of leaflets on each side of the midrib. i.e. without a single leaflet at the apex or terminal.
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Pectinate	Comb-like
	This Refers To the Leaf array	The leaves resembles the tooth of a comb like some conifers.
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Peltate	Shield-like
	This Refers To the Leaf shape	Having a flat usually circular structure attached to the stalk near the center, rather than at or near the edge. Like the leaf of the Nasturtium.
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Perfoliate	Through
	This Refers To the Leaf attachment	The basal lobes of the leaves are joined so that the stem appears to go straight through the leaf.
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Petiolate	Small Foot
	This Refers To the Leaf attachment	The leaves are attached to the stem with a petiole or small stalk.
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Pinna	Feather
	This Refers To the Compound leaf	The individual leaf of a compound pinnate leaf. The leaflet on either side of the midrib of a pinnate compound leaf.
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Pinnate	Feathered
	This Refers To the Venation	The venation arise from the midrib like a feather.
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Pinnate	Feathered
	This Refers To the Compound leaf	A compound leaf with leaflets on either side of the midrib like a feather.
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Pinnately Lobed	Feather-like
	This Refers To the Leaf edges	The leaves are lobed with three or more lobes arranged like a pinnate leaf, but with the lobing not reaching the midrib.
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Pinnatifid	Cleaved
	This Refers To the Leaf shape	The leaves are split or lobed halfway to the midrib in a feather-like manner.
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Pinnatisect	Feather cut
	This Refers To the Leaf edges	The leaves are lobed or cut almost to the midrib.
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Plicate	folded
	This Refers To the Leaf surface	Of leaves folded multiple time lengthwise into parallel ridges, like a fan; corrugated like the pleats of cloth.
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Quinate	Five Leaved
	This Refers To the Compound leaf	The leaves are digitally lobed with each of its five lobes arising from a common point. Like the palm of the hand.
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Reniform	Kidney shape
	This Refers To the Leaf shape	The leaves are in the shape of a kidney or bean.
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Retuse	Blunted
	This Refers To the Leaf tips	The leaf tip s are blunted and obtuse with a small notch in the middle.
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Revolute	Rolled
	This Refers To the Leaf margin	The leaf margins are rolled up under the leaf blade. In a similar way to involute.
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Rhomboidal	Diamond shaped
	This Refers To the Leaf shape	The leaves are in the shape of a rhombus or a skewed parrellelogram.
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Rosette	Rose-like
	This Refers To the Leaf array	A circular cluster of leaves that radiate from a center at or close to the ground.
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Sagittate	Arrow-shaped
	This Refers To the Leaf shape	Having the shape of an arrowhead without flaring base lobes.
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Scale-like	Scale-like
	This Refers To the Leaf shape	Having leaves that are flattened and closely attached to the stem like the Juniperus chinensis and other connifer trees.
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Scale-like	Scale-like
	This Refers To the leaf array	Having leaves that are arranged flattened and closely attached to the stem like the Juniperus chinensis and other connifer trees.
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Serrate	Saw Tooth
	This Refers To the Leaf edges	The margins of the leaves or structures are notched like the tooth of a saw.
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Serrulate	Fine Saw Tooth
	This Refers To the Leaf edges	The leaves margin are like the tooth of a fine saw tooth.
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Sessile	None
	This Refers To the Leaf attachment	The leaves are attached to the stem without a petiole.
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Shallowly lobed	Shallowly lobed
	This Refers To the Leaf shape	As the name says the leaves are shallowly lobed.
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Sheating	Shell
	This Refers To the Leaf attachment	The lower part of the leaf surrounds the stem.
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Sinuate	Curve
	This Refers To the Leaf edges	The leaves have a wavy and indented margin.
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Spatulate	Spatula-like
	This Refers To the Leaf shape	A leaf shape having a broad rounded apex and a narrow base.
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Spinose	Prickly
	This Refers To the Leaf edges	The leaves have many spines like the leaves of some Holly.
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Spore	Spore
	This Refers To the Reproduction cells	The minute, reproductive structure of flowerless plants, such as ferns, fungi, and mosses.
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Stipulate	Small Stalk
	This Refers To the Leaf attachment	Having stipules at the point of attachment.
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Subulate	Tapering
	This Refers To the Leaf shape	Narrow and tapering to a point. Like a pointed braddle or awl. Become gradually narrower or thinner toward one end, like an onion leaf.
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