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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Names</strong> of <strong>Plants</strong><br />

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(a) (b)<br />

(d)<br />

(c)<br />

Figure 8. Other shapes which provide specific epithets:<br />

(a) Bilobed (e.g. Ginkgo biloba), deeply cleft into two lobes.<br />

(b) Deltoid (e.g. Populus deltoides), triangular, almost an equilateral triangle.<br />

(c) Uncinate (e.g. the spikelet axis of Uncinia uncinata), formed into a hook.<br />

(d) Digitate (e.g. Adansonia digitata), with five lobes arising from the apex of the<br />

petiole.<br />

(e) Trifoliate (e.g. Ptelea trifoliata), with three leaflets.<br />

(e)

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