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Figure 7. Leaf-apex shapes which provide specific epithets:
(a) Caudate (e.g. Ornithogalum caudatum Jacq.), with a tail.
(b) Mucronate (e.g. Erigeron mucronatus DC.), with a hard tooth.
(c) Acuminate (e.g. Magnolia acuminata L.), pointed abruptly.
(d) Truncate (e.g. Zygocactus truncatus K.Schum.), bluntly foreshortened.
(e) Apiculate (e.g. Braunsia apiculata Schw.), with a short broad point.
(f) Retuse (e.g. Daphne retusa Hemsl.), shallowly indented.
(g) Aristate (e.g. Berberis aristata DC.), with a hair-like tip, not always restricted to
describing the leaf-apex.
(h) Emarginate (e.g. Limonium emarginatum (Willd.) O. Kuntze), with a deep midline
indentation.
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