What does hemicordate mean?
Hemicordate means (botany) Shaped like half of a heart.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(botany) Shaped like half of a heart.
Lateral leaves imbricate or distant, spreading, broadly ovate to ovate-oblong, 2.5–4.0 × 1.3–2.3 mm; bases rounded or hemicordate, acroscopic bases strongly overlapping stems, basiscopic bases free from stems; acroscopic margins greenish or hyaline in band 2–4 cells wide, the cells elongate and papillate parallel to margins, papillae in 1 row over each cell lumen, long-ciliate along proximal ½–⅔ and serrulate to entire distally, basiscopic margins greenish or narrowly hyaline in a band 1 or 2 cells wide, the cells as along acroscopic margins, entire or entire along proximal ¾ and serrulate along distal ¼, apices mucronate or obtuse, tipped by 2 or 3 teeth; upper surfaces comprising rounded to quadrangular, sinuate-walled cells, most of these covered by 5–10 papillae, without idioblasts or stomata, lower surfaces comprising elongate, sinuate-walled cells, few of these papillate and idioblast-like, papillae in 1 row over each cell lumen, with stomata in 2 or 3 rows along midribs.
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Hemicordate means (botany) Shaped like half of a heart.
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Lateral leaves imbricate or distant, spreading, broadly ovate to ovate-oblong, 2.5–4.0 × 1.3–2.3 mm; bases rounded or hemicordate, acroscopic bases strongly overlapping stems, basiscopic bases free from stems; acroscopic margins greenish or hyaline in band 2–4 cells wide, the cells elongate and papillate parallel to margins, papillae in 1 row over each cell lumen, long-ciliate along proximal ½–⅔ and serrulate to entire distally, basiscopic margins greenish or narrowly hyaline in a band 1 or 2 cells wide, the cells as along acroscopic margins, entire or entire along proximal ¾ and serrulate along distal ¼, apices mucronate or obtuse, tipped by 2 or 3 teeth; upper surfaces comprising rounded to quadrangular, sinuate-walled cells, most of these covered by 5–10 papillae, without idioblasts or stomata, lower surfaces comprising elongate, sinuate-walled cells, few of these papillate and idioblast-like, papillae in 1 row over each cell lumen, with stomata in 2 or 3 rows along midribs.
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