Pseudostipule

• Title

  Pseudostipule

• Definition

  A leaf (e.g., in some species of Aristolochiaceae) or leaflet (e.g., in some species of Trichilia, Meliaceae) that resembles a stipule; in some Bignoniaceae, a bud scale derived from the axillary buds that resembles a stipule.

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