Intersecondary vein

• Title

  Intersecondary vein

• Definition

  A leaf vein that is intermediate in size between secondary and tertiary veins and often runs parallel to the secondary veins that it runs between. At about the middle between the midrib and the leaf blade margin intersecondary veins start to ramify dendritically.

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