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ligule::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | plant part, plant structure |
Examples of ligule
ligule
The tip of the ligule is often divided into teeth, each one representing a petal.
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The white ray florets are furnished with a ligule, while the disc florets are yellow.
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Ray florets are always highly zygomorphic and are characterised by the presence of a ligule, a strap-shaped structure on the edge of the corolla tube consisting of fused petals.
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- (botany) any appendage to a plant that is shaped like a strap
- A ligule (from Latin: ligula "strap", variant of lingula, from lingua "tongue") u2014 is a thin outgrowth at the junction of leaf and leafstalk of many grasses (Poaceae) and sedges. A ligule is also a strap-shaped extension of the corolla, such as that of a ray floret in plants in the daisy family Asteraceae.
- A strap-shaped structure; A portion of a leaf found at the base of the petiole, when present; In many grasses (Poaceae) and some sedges (Cyperaceae), the membranous appendage or ring of hairs projecting from the inner side of a leaf at the junction between the blade and the sheath
- A thin membraneous appendage at the apex of a leaf sheath
- A tongue-shaped lobe found at the base of leaf blades of grasses and gingers.
- In grasses, the thin outgrowth from the inner surface of a leaf where the sheath and blade join.
- In Compositae it is used with reference to the flat, strap-shaped limb, with 5 apical teeth, of the corolla in a ligulate capitulum, e.g. members of the tribe Lactuceae.
- The structure at the collar of a grass leaf between the sheath and the stem.
- The distal, more or less flat, strap-shaped, 5-lobed portion of the corolla limb of a ligulate floret. Used in some references for the lamina of a ray floret. See: lamina.
