ligule

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ligule

a small, scale-like outgrowth from a leaf, found in club mosses and some grasses.

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9) head and pronotum; 10) antenna in dorsal view; 11) ligule and labial palps; 12) mentum; 13-15) aedeagus in dorsal, ventral and lateral view.

NUEVA ESPECIE DE PAXILLUS MACLEAY, 1819 (COLEOPTERA: PASSALIDAE: PASSALINAE) DE LA AMAZONIA BRASILENA

Closed examination revealed that specimen from Bungo Range National Park has several distinguishing morphological characteristics, i.e., elliptic and oblong-elliptic leave with caudate apex, being bilobed with tomentose and black stripes at the margin of the ligule, orange flower, a widening cup-shaped stigma with cilia, and distinct trilobed (Table 1, Figures 2 and 3).

Amomum bungoensis: A New Species of Amomum (Zingiberaceae) from Sarawak, Malaysia

Type of Auricle and Relative Shape of Ligule. An equal proportion of the germplasm totally constituting 84% of the collection belong to four phenotypic classes, namely, those with no auricle and others with transitional and short and lanceolate auricles.

Sugarcane Landraces of Ethiopia: Germplasm Collection and Analysis of Regional Diversity and Distribution

Another feature, the ligule, is an outgrowth that arises at the inside junction of the sheath and leaf blade.

Salinity tolerance turfgrass: history and prospects

Ligule pit apertures are clearly visible on Bothrodendron stems, thereby distinguishing them from the superficially similar stems Cyclostigma and Pinakodendron, in which they are never seen.

Leafy branches of Bothrodendron punctatum from the Westphalian D (Asturian) of Nova Scotia, Canada

Entries include common and Latin names; generic descriptions; distribution; habitat; culm; leaf, sheath, and ligule; inflorescence and flower; and reproductive time; often comments; color photographs of whole plants and details; and sometimes additional drawings.

A guide to Florida grasses

Leaves generally have well-developed blades, but are reduced to lobes in some species; there also may be a ligule. Inflorescences are capitate or anthelate.

What is a genus in Cypereae: phylogeny, character homology assessment and generic circumscription in Cypereae

Other important structures used for identification purposes, such as the ligule (Figures 4 and 5), collar (Figures 6 and 7), and auricles (Figures 8 and 9), are found at the collar area where the leaf sheath and blade join (Figures 10 to 13).

Appendix D Identification of grasses by vegetative characteristics

Identify the blade, ligule, sheath, crown, root, rhizome, and stolon, if present.

Chapter 15: turfgrass

Johnston W, Clifton C, Cole I, Koen TB, Mitchell J, Waterhouse DB (1999) Low input grasses useful in limiting environments (LIGULE).

Nitrogen contributions in a windmill grass (Chloris truncata)--wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) system in south-western Australia

The morphometric variables used were plant height from ground level to the uppermost visible ligule, stalk diameter at the base of the plant, and maximum apical ear diameter at [R.sub.2].

Genotypic variability in morphological and physiological traits among maize inbred lines--nitrogen responses

He likes to use precise, sometimes scientific, terms like virga, ligule, and frazil, and to intermingle them with formal literary terms.

Nature in an Armchair Hour - With attentive observation and beautifully crafted prose, Verlyn Klinkenborg invites us to experience, as well as to consider, a relationship to the land and nature