phyllodium
Americannoun
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phyllodia
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Etymology
Origin of phyllodium
1840–50; < New Latin, equivalent to Greek phyllṓd ( ēs ) leaflike ( see phyllode) + New Latin -ium -ium
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Martins proposes to apply the word 'cladodium' to such expansions, just as the term phyllodium is applied to the similar dilatation of the leaf-stalks.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
An Acacia with very large falcate, glaucous phyllodia, and the Euphorbiaceous Severn-tree, were very plentiful; and Crinum grew in thousands on the sandy flats.
From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Ludwig Leichhardt
MACROPHYLLA; it approached A. AMOENA, but the stem was less angular, and the phyllodia bore but one gland.
From Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia by Thomas Mitchell
A low shrubby Acacia with sigmoid phyllodia was frequent on the hills.
From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Ludwig Leichhardt
It has long broad falcate phyllodia, whilst another species of the same size has an irregular scaly bark, with small phyllodia, but of a greyer colour than those of the common Bricklow.
From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Ludwig Leichhardt
Leighton, that the fluid so abundantly secreted by glands on the phyllodia of the Australian Acacia magnifica, which stand near the flowers, is connected with their fertilisation.
From Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin
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