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Definition of Perfoliate leaf
1. Noun. A leaf with the base united around--and apparently pierced by--the stem.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perfoliate Leaf
Literary usage of Perfoliate leaf
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany of the Southern States by John Darby (1860)
"perfoliate leaf, caused by the union of the lobes of the leaf. as Fig. 56 ; at
others, by the lobes of the leaf uniting on the opposite side of the stem. ..."
2. Structural Botany: Or Organography on the Basis of Morphology. To which is by Asa Gray (1879)
"... but it is customary, though etymologically absurd, to call this a perfoliate
leaf ! Uvularia perfoliata (Fig. 213), in the later growth of the season, ..."
3. Gray's Botanical Text-book by Asa Gray (1879)
"... is literally perfoliate, ie which seemingly passes through the leaf; but it
is customary, though etymologically absurd, to call this a perfoliate leaf! ..."
4. Class Book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology and by Alphonso Wood (1861)
"Should these lobes extend quite around the stem and become blended together, on
the other side a perfoliate leaf will be formed (per, through, folium, ..."
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