Plant structure

Australian conventions and resources

FloraBase (the website of the Western Australian Herbarium) and Flora Online (maintained by the National Herbarium of New South Wales) both have glossaries of botanical terms.

Leaf types

Leaf types are classified by shape, arrangement, vein pattern, margin shape, texture and colour. 

Each leaf type has an anglicised name and a Latin name. Use lower case for both names and italics for Latin names (but note that Latin names are rarely used in modern science texts):

bipinnate [Latin: bipinnata]     filiform [filiformis]     round [rotunda]

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