exstipulate
Americanadjective
adjective
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Origin of exstipulate
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Leaves simple, alternate, entire, sub-evergreen, exstipulate; branches often spiny.
From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A. C. (Austin Craig) Apgar
The members of this genus are shrubs or small trees having alternate, exstipulate leaves, and flowers with three small sepals, six petals arranged in a double row and numerous stamens.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
Shrubs or trees with alternate, simple, deciduous, exstipulate, serrate leaves.
From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A. C. (Austin Craig) Apgar
Pod short, splitting into as many or twice as many valves as there are styles, few–many-seeded.—Low, usually tufted herbs, with sessile exstipulate leaves and small white flowers.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Trees with deciduous, alternate, exstipulate, usually entire leaves, mostly acute at both ends.
From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A. C. (Austin Craig) Apgar
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