stipule
noun
one of a pair of lateral appendages, often leaflike, at the base of a leaf petiole in many plants.
stipular
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a word derived from
stipule.
Example Sentences
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Shrubs or herbs; leaves opposite, rarely stipular, not turning black in drying.
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
With stipules or with stipular scars indicating where stipules have been detached — 134. 133b.
From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Henry Allan Gleason
Cuscuta, in Convolvulaceæ, 370 Leaves opposite, their bases or petioles connected by stipules or a stipular line.
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
Glaucous, sometimes slightly puberulent, often low and cespitose, the rigid branches angled; leaves narrow, erect, usually with stipular glands; flowers large; sepals lanceolate, glandular-serrulate; styles united; capsule ovoid, 5-valved.—Minn. to Kan., and southward.
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
Wood soft; both kinds of flowers in catkins in spring; with either stipules or stipular sears 91. Salix. b.
From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A. C. (Austin Craig) Apgar
