Glossary

Category: P

  • Palmatilobed

    (Of plane shapes) lobed, the lobes radiating from a central point like the fingers of a hand.  

  • Palmatifid

    Palmatifid

    Cut to a palmate form, the divisions reaching about the middle. With a simple leaf cut into a palmately lobed shape.  

  • Palmately veined

    Palmately veined

    When the main veins of a leaf originate at one point and spread from there.  

  • Palmate

    Palmate

    (In lobed or compound leaves) when all lobes or leaflets originate from one central point (as fingers originate from the palm of the hand); = digitate. (Lindley (1832) uses this term only for palmately lobed; Hickey & King (2000) use it only for palmately divided; Stearn (1973) specifies it to mean 5-lobed; generally it can…

  • Palman

    (In palms) the central undivided part of a fan leaf.  

  • Palm

    (As a measurement) 3 inches, or 7.5 cm. Members of the family Palmae or Arecaceae, that is, trees characterized by a normally unbranched trunk topped by a bunch of large leaves and a distinct preference for warm climates. The inner surface of the hand, extending from the bases of the fingers to the wrist. Any…

  • Pallid

    Very pale, an indefinite whitish color.  

  • Palisade

    Fence-like, with a horizontal row of vertical shapes.  

  • Palinactinodromous

    Compound actinodromous, with three or more prominent veins from near the base of the leaf running towards the margin (and reaching or not reaching it), and with these main veins again branching [unusual term].  

  • Paleola

    A small palea.