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• a variation of imparipinnate.

odd-pinnate

British  

adjective

1. (of a plant leaf) pinnate with a single leaflet at the apex

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Leaves odd-pinnate; leaflets less than 3 in. long, frequently 11-21 in number; often with spines at the bases of the leaves in the place of stipules 12. Xanthoxylumor 31. Robinia.    u.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)

Botanical Description.—A tree 4–5 meters high with odd-pinnate leaves.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers

Small tree with alternate, odd-pinnate leaves, the base of the petiole hollow, and inclosing the leaf-buds of the next year.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)

Pod membranaceous, enclosed in the calyx, indehiscent, 1–2 seeded.—Chiefly perennial herbs, upright, glandular-dotted, with crowded odd-pinnate leaves, minute stipules, and small flowers in very dense terminal and peduncled heads or spikes.

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 Gray, Asa

Botanical Description.—A tree, 30–40° high, with leaves alternate, compound, odd-pinnate; leaflets opposite, ovate, pointed, dentate.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers