Perfoliate

• Title

  Perfoliate

• Definition

  Referring to a stem that with two leaf bases that are completely fused together, i.e., the leaves look as if their bases grew through the leaves.

• Notes

  When two leaf bases wrap around the stem the leaf is amplexicaulous or clasping.

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