Study Set Content:
upper surface aka
adaxial
leaves of what plant are long enough that the leaves do not shade each other, and are all fully exposed to light
Poplar
poplar
Populos alba
The lower side of each leaf blade is covered with
White, dead trichomes
Plants’ highly efficient form of solar panel
that captured the sun’s energy.
Leaves
Regardless of their ultimate size or form,
all leaves originate as what in the buds
Primordia
stalk
petiole
network of veins
Flattened blade or lamina
network of veins
vascular bundles
when leaves lack of petiole, they have this
Sessile Leaf
Lower surface aka
abaxial
pair of leaflike, scalelike, or thornlike appendages
Stipule
which have
the leaflets in pairs along an
extension of the petiole called the
rachis
Pinnately compound
has a single blade or lamina
Simple leaf
Regardless of the number
of leaflets, a compound leaf
still has (blank)
at its base with the leaflets
having no such buds.
single axillary bud
divided in various ways
into leaflets.
Compound leaf
The arrangement of leaves on the stem
Phyllotaxy
3 o more leaves per node
Whorled
Leaves located in 2 rows only
Distichous
Leaves not aligned with their nearest neighbors
Spiral
